ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish lawyers and advocates have criticised the head of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for not defending human rights and the rule of law robustly enough while meeting President Tayyip Erdogan and top judiciary in Ankara.
The European court's president, Robert Spano, began his four-day visit to Turkey with a speech on judicial independence in which he criticised the country's arrests of judges and emphasized the principal of subsidiarity, under which Turkish courts must recognise ECHR rulings.