Turkey openly defies European institutions because ‘nothing will happen’ – Dilek Kurban

European appeasement policies towards Turkey and other “basically autocratic regimes” has resulted in the Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan believing that whatever they do, no substantial consequences will come from the Council of Europe or the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Dilek Kurban, fellow and lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, told Ahval in an interview. In the inaugural episode of Jumping Off, the jumping off point for Ahval’s Zeynep Dicle is Kurban’s book, Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict. The hour-long talk starts with the tragic story of Taybet İnan, an elderly Kurdish woman who in 2015 was killed by artillery fire from a Turkish armoured vehicle in Silopi, Şırnak, a border town in the southeast that has had a key importance for Turkey’s Kurds.