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PRESS RELEASE
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
Ref. CG052(2025)
Council of Europe Congress mission to Türkiye to visit detained youth delegate
The delegation also includes Congress Spokesperson on Youth Véronique Bertholle (France, SOC/G/PD) and Deputy Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights Peter Drenth (Netherlands, EPP/CCE), and is accompanied by Congress Secretary General Mathieu Mori. The delegation is expected to visit Enes Hocaoğulları in prison in Ankara and to hold meetings with Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç, Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Gökhan Karaköse, the Ankara Bar Association, human rights and youth organisations, as well as the Turkish delegation to the Congress.
A press conference on the results of the visit will be organised on Friday 5 September at 12:30pm in the Ankara Hilton Hotel (Tahran Caddesi No 12, Kavaklidere, Ankara, 06700), with English/Turkish interpretation. 
Contact:
In Strasbourg
In Ankara (as from 4 September)
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is an institution of the Council of Europe, responsible for strengthening local and regional democracy in its 46 member states. Composed of two chambers – the Chamber of Local Authorities and the Chamber of Regions – and three committees, it brings together 612 elected officials representing more than 130 000 local and regional authorities.
President of the Congress: Marc Cools (Belgium, ILDG), President of the Chamber of Local Authorities: Bernd Vöhringer (Germany, EPP/CCE), President of the Chamber of Regions: Cecilia Dalman Eek (Sweden, SOC/G/PD).
Political groups: Group of Socialists, Greens and Progressive Democrats (SOC/G/PD), Group of the European Peoples Party (EPP/CCE), Independent Liberal and Democratic Group (ILDG), European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR).
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