Bayr told the TR724 news website that ensuring the full execution of ECtHR rulings would be among her top priorities, with Turkey-related cases high on her agenda. The long-running case of Kavala has become emblematic of Turkey’s failure to comply with ECtHR judgments. Jailed since 2017, Kavala is serving a life sentence despite a 2019 ECtHR judgment ordering his release. He was acquitted in 2020 but rearrested the same day and sentenced in 2022, with Turkish courts upholding the verdict. The joint briefing, published on June and submitted to EU institutions by Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, accused Turkish authorities of systematic noncompliance with legally binding rulings from the Strasbourg-based court.