ANKARA
Turkish justice minister has said Turkey was committed to take continued measures to improve its human rights record, adding that latest reforms in legal system had begun yielding results.
"The reform package passed in 2011 and an action plan which was launched the same year to curb human rights violations had begun yielding its results. In 2012, Turkey was no more the country with the most human rights violation cases at the European Court of Human Rights. And we are getting ready to make sure that we stay out of the top-three list forever," Sadullah Ergin told Tuesday a joint press conference with Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe.
Ergin said reforms included granting individual access to the Constitutional Court as well as the establishment of settlement commissions.
Jagland, on his part, said Turkey had made significant progress in improving the country's legal system, adding that Turkey had so far passed three reform packages.
"And with the fourth package certain problems in Criminal Code, anti-terrorism laws and in freedom of speech will be solved," Jagland said.
