Crimes Against Humanity
This report aims to provide an answer to the key questions addressed to the Turkey Tribunal about crimes against humanity
Crimes Against Humanity in Turkey Today
This questions is:
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Do we need to qualify the acts of torture, as well as the national and the extraterritorial abductions, as described in the reports brought before the Turkey Tribunal, as crimes against humanity, according to the Rome Statute?
The Turkey Tribunal (The Tribunal) is an Opinion Tribunal. It is neither a regular court subject to a State’s judicial system, nor a court established by a Treaty or an international organisation. It is a Tribunal established by civil society and serves as an instrument and platform to give recognition, visibility and a voice to people who allegedly suffer(ed) violations of their fundamental rights.
TurkeyTribunal 2021 Rapporteur
Intervention of the Rapporteur - Prof. Dr. Em. Johan Vande Lanotte
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Crimes Against Humanity in Turkey Today
Together with war crimes, genocide and the crime of aggression, crimes against
humanity are one of the four “core crimes” – the most serious violations of human
rights and international criminal law – with respect to which the International Criminal
Court (the “ICC”) in the Hague has jurisdiction
Crimes against humanity were first introduced as a separate category of international
crimes in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal.3 The aim was to criminalize three
sorts of criminality that had, until then, evaded the sanction of international law:
atrocities committed outside the context of an armed conflict or independent of it,
crimes committed against fellow nationals and institutionalized discriminatory
violence that resulted in individuals being targeted and mistreated by a state because
of their identity.
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The Turkey Tribunal (The Tribunal) is an Opinion Tribunal. It is neither a regular court subject to a State’s judicial system, nor a court established by a Treaty or an international organisation. It is a Tribunal established by civil society and serves as an instrument and platform to give recognition, visibility and a voice to people who allegedly suffer(ed) violations of their fundamental rights.
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