TURKEY. PROTOCOL NO. 13 RATIFIED

06 March 2006 :

Turkey ratifies Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances.

(Sources: Council of Europe, 06/03/06)

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