1. The European Parliament (EP) adopted the 2021 Turkey Report by a majority of votes in the General Assembly Meeting on June 6-7, 2022. The report stated that Turkey has distanced itself from the values and standards of the European Union (EU) and there have been no major improvements in fundamental freedoms, democracy, and the rule of law. On June 7, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement about the adoption of the report and stated that it “does not accept the EP’s biased and unrealistic assessments in the report … which evaluates Türkiye from a shallow perspective, provides yet another example of the EP’s attitude, which is detached from reality, ideological and biased, and thus only damages the EP’s reputation.”
2. Several articles of the “Permanent State of Emergency Law”, which had remained in effect for three years after the initial State of Emergency, were repealed on July 31, 2022.
3. Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, ruled on July 19, 2022 that the President’s unilateral decision to withdraw Turkey’s membership to the Istanbul Convention on Violence Against Women was lawful.