What is it about?
This article examines a series of trials for human rights abuses carried out by the Turkish military against Kurds southeastern Turkey in the 1990s. The trials started to be opened in 2008, and can be best understood as a consequence of elite conflict that allowed for new judicial opportunities for activists representing victims.
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Why is it important?
This specific case shows the ways that justice mechanisms can be used in semi-democratic regimes, and how they can have unintended consequences.
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This page is a summary of: Human Rights Trials in an Era of Democratic Stagnation: The Case of Turkey, Law & Social Inquiry, January 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12260.
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