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The US and the EU issued statements on Saturday and Friday highlighting their concerns over the Kosovo government’s recent actions in relation to the raiding of Serbian-run organisations, as well as the banning of Serbian currency. The US Ambassador to Kosovo, Jeffrey M. Hovenier, said that the US government was “deeply concerned about recent actions [...]

The Belgrade Court of Appeal in Serbia acquitted Friday four ex-members of the former Republic of Yugoslavia security services of the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija. Ćuruvija was a journalist and the owner of the first private daily newspaper in Serbia, Dnevni Telegraf. He was shot and killed outside of his apartment on April 11, [...]

Türkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan officially approved Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Thursday, marking the end of months of delay and leaving Hungary as the remaining hurdle to Stockholm’s NATO membership. The approval came about 20 months after Sweden first requested to join NATO in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Swedish Prime Minister [...]

Russia accused Ukraine of deliberately shooting down a Russian Military Transport plane Wednesday carrying 65 Ukrainian Military personnel for an alleged “pre-agreed exchange” of prisoners of war. The incident reportedly killed 74, including six crew members and 3 Russian officers. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning the shooting down of a [...]

The current conflict engulfing Israel and Palestine raises significant issues of international law and policy. This is part one in an anticipated two-part series that will discuss some of the relevant legal questions before the International Criminal Court (ICC; Part I) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ; Part II).  With both courts located in [...]

Mehmet Hasan Yacı is a Staff Correspondent for JURIST and a senior law student at Türkiye’ s Galatasaray University. He files this dispatch from Istanbul.  Today, Tuesday, the Turkish National Assembly accepted Sweden’s bid to join the NATO alliance by a vote of 287 in favor, 55 against, and 4 abstaining. During the final negotiations [...]

The resumption of any kind of negotiations or diplomatic ties with the Taliban should come with principles and conditions. Such conditions should be no less than those enshrined in the fundamental principle of human rights and dignity and expected in a multi-ethnic and democratic country. Afghanistan cannot afford to settle for anything less than the [...]

The Interior Minister of Finland Mari Rantanen announced in a press briefing on Thursday that Finland has decided to prolong the closure of its border crossing points with Russia until February 11, beyond the initially scheduled end date of January 15. The briefing states that Russia facilitated “instrumentalized migration”, which refers to intentionally creating cross-border [...]

The Serbian Ministry of Defence announced Thursday the launch of an initiative to bring back mandatory military service in Serbia. Serbia had mandatory military service for male citizens until 2010. The mandatory military service requirement applied to men. The length of service varied, but it was typically around six months. The Deputy Prime Minister and [...]

Hasan Yaci is a Staff Correspondent for JURIST and a senior law student at Türkiye’s Galatasaray University in Istanbul. This is his first dispatch.  Athens hosted Turkish President Erdogan for the occasion of the 5th Greece-Türkiye High Level Cooperation Council on 7 December. The meeting, which marked the Turkish President’s first visit to Greece since [...]