Individual application has been available since 2012 and generates the great majority of its docket. Its authority has been openly contested: lower courts have refused to implement its judgments in some high-profile cases, notably the Can Atalay proceedings in 2023–24, prompting the court to find continuing violations. Turkey remains a Council of Europe member, and the European Court of Human Rights has found violations in cases such as Kavala and Demirtaş where implementation was withheld.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- constitutional
- Court type
- Constitutional court
- Jurisdiction
- Abstract and concrete review of the constitutionality of statutes and presidential decrees, individual application alleging violation of rights protected by the Constitution and the European Convention, dissolution of political parties, and trial of senior officials.
- Seat
- Ankara
- Established
- 1962
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