The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has said it will not accept any case from Turkey in connection to long detention periods until next September to allow Ankara to finalize drafting formulas to address the issue.

The news is not a good news as Turkey still keeps jailing hundreds of people for long periods, and this includes pre-trial detentions.

In a statement released by the ECHR, the Court explains its decision saying that it will "adjourn examination of [such] applications not yet communicated to the Turkish government and those lodged between now and Sept. 22, 2012". The applications that have already been made would continue to be examined by the court under normal procedures.

The ECHR has called on Turkey to establish a special commission to handle cases on the excessive length of judicial proceedings and long detention periods before they are taken to Strasbourg as a means to address the backlog of cases.

The statement adds that "the court held, with regard to the applications pending before it and those lodged between now and Sept. 22, 2012, that Turkey had to put in place (...) an effective remedy affording adequate and sufficient redress in cases where judicial proceedings exceeded a reasonable time,” the court said.