Selected summaries of Constitutional Court, ECHR, and cross-border rulings, along with notes on regulatory change — explained in plain language for clients and colleagues alike.
Courts in Europe have applied increasingly rigorous scrutiny to extradition requests from Turkey in recent years. Fair trial risk, suspected political motivation and the risk of ill-treatment have become decisive factors.
Read moreIn Parun and Others, Ünal and Others and Korkmaz and Others, the ECtHR found violations for a total of 947 applicants. Since Yalçınkaya, how has the line of group judgments on ByLock evolved?
Read moreHow does a German judgment become effective in Turkey, and a Turkish one in Germany? A look at the MÖHUK requirements, the German ZPO rules and common pitfalls.
Read moreContracts with German companies often go wrong not out of bad faith, but because certain points were never clarified upfront. Here are 10 items to check before you sign.
Read moreGermany's EU Blue Card salary thresholds have risen for 2026. Here's what you need to know about the general and reduced thresholds, eligibility, and how to apply.
Read moreLiving in Germany or elsewhere in Europe and under investigation in Turkey? Learn about your right to silence and counsel, how to defend yourself from abroad, the risk of an arrest warrant, and the deadlines for remedies.
Read moreThe United Nations human rights bodies, based in Geneva, offer independent international avenues of redress, grounded in different treaties and subject to their own admissibility rules.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is an international judicial body before which individuals may bring complaints alleging violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Read moreThe Luxembourg Administrative Court has set aside the Interior Ministry's refusal of international protection to a Turkish national with ties to the Gülen movement, recognised him as a refugee, and annulled the order to leave the territory.
Read moreEncrypted messaging data is not, by itself, a presumption of guilt. The decisive issue is not the name of the application, but how the evidence was obtained, whether its source and integrity can be tested in court, and whether the guarantees of a fair trial were observed.
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