{"id":9200,"date":"2026-02-11T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:13:10","slug":"turkeys-constitutional-court-finds-rights-violation-over-prisoners-denied-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/9200\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court finds rights violation over prisoner\u2019s denied phone calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AYM.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"479\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"AYM\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AYM-696x479.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"479\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AYM-696x479.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"AYM\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court has ruled that prison authorities violated an inmate\u2019s right to private life and freedom of communication by refusing to allow phone calls with his fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/kararlarbilgibankasi.anayasa.gov.tr\/BB\/2020\/33016\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a>, dated September 16, 2025, and published Tuesday, concerns applicant \u0130zzetdin Sert, a convicted felon held at S\u00f6ke Prison in western Turkey\u2019s Ayd\u0131n province. Sert said he had been able to communicate with his fianc\u00e9e, who was detained in another prison, only by letter for about 33 months and had requested permission to speak by phone. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prison authorities rejected the request, citing regulations that allow telephone calls only with legally recognized relatives or spouses. After lower courts dismissed his complaints, Sert filed an individual application with the Constitutional Court, Turkey\u2019s top court for constitutional rights complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that although prison regulations did not explicitly grant a right to telephone calls with fianc\u00e9es, the authorities failed to properly assess the applicant\u2019s individual circumstances, including the fact that the partners were both incarcerated and unable to meet in person. Relying solely on letters for an extended period placed a disproportionate burden on the relationship and therefore violated constitutional protections for private life and communication, the court said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups in Turkey have repeatedly reported complaints related to communication restrictions, visitation limitations and administrative decisions affecting prisoners\u2019 contact with family members and partners, with many disputes reaching higher courts through individual rights applications in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court has ruled that prison authorities violated an inmate\u2019s right to private life and freedom of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[422,423,425,426,312,7414,427,428,429,431,131,132,155,7415],"class_list":{"0":"post-9200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-ak-party","9":"tag-akp","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-erdogan","12":"tag-human-rights","13":"tag-izzetdin-sert","14":"tag-justice","15":"tag-law","16":"tag-oppression","17":"tag-rule-of-law","18":"tag-stockholm","19":"tag-sweden","20":"tag-turkey","21":"tag-turkeys-constitutional-court"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}