"Arrest warrant for military 'deserter' defies European court
NICK BIRCH IN ISTANBUL
A MILITARY prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for Turkey's most famous conscientious objector, in breach of a landmark European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling last year that the repeated imprisonment of Osman Murat Ulke constituted degrading treatment.
Ulke has been arrested and imprisoned repeatedly since he burnt his call-up papers in 1995, for the simple reason that Turkey does not recognise conscientious objection."
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