The Coalition for the International Criminal Court announced Sept. 4 that Turkey will be the focus of its monthlong campaign for global justice in September. The coalition, which is composed of 2,500 nongovernmental organizations in 150 countries, is demanding that Turkey ratify the Rome Statute — the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Speaking to Al-Monitor, Gunal Kursun, president of the Human Rights Agenda Association and member of the Turkish National Coalition for the ICC, said that although being a member of the ICC is not a benchmark concerning the entry into the European Union, the 2013 Progress Report also mentioned that “Turkey did not sign the statute of the International Criminal Court.”