The Regional Round Table Meeting on “Emerging Issues in the Individual Application to the Constitutional Court” under the Joint Project on “Supporting Individual Application to the Constitutional Court in Turkey” was organized on 20-21 February 2017 in Erzurum.
The meeting aimed at identifying problematic areas that are subjects in individual applications and directly concern local courts and prosecution offices and at contributing to solution of issues resulting in violation judgments at its roots. Members and rapporteurs of the Constitutional Court, members of Erzurum Court of Appeals, Chairs of Justice Commissions in affiliated provinces, Chief Public Prosecutors and Presidents of Bar Associations as well as judges, prosecutors and lawyers from Erzurum and academics from faculties of law in various universities participated in the meeting.
The right to defence (the right to legal assistance) within the context of the right to a fair trial, principles on equality of arms and adversarial trial within the context of the right to fair trial and the right to person’s liberty and security, the right to a fair hearing (the right to a reasoned judgment), Protection of dignity and honour within the context of freedom of expression and obligation of effective investigation within the context of right to life and prohibition of torture and ill-treatment were the topics of the discussions in the meeting; debates were held on principles and standards prescribed in the Turkish Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and the judgments of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
Regional round table meetings are planned to be organized in other provinces with Regional Courts of Appeals in 2017 and 2018.
