A comprehensive legal summary of the ECtHR Grand Chamber’s judgment in Kavala v. Türkiye (No. 2)

The 17-judge Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in its Aug. 25, 2026 judgment in Kavala v. Türkiye (No. 2), examined as a whole the criminal proceedings against Osman Kavala, his continued deprivation of liberty after 2019, his conviction in the Gezi Park trial and the aggravated life sentence imposed on him.