On 9-10 January, the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights carried out a mission to Ankara to discuss inadequate reasoning in domestic court judgments, a shortcoming increasingly underlined by the European Court in recent years.
To this end, the Department held high-level meetings with the Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation, and the Council of State, during which various alternatives to improve the quality of domestic court judgments were discussed with the judicial authorities. Bearing in mind the need for awareness raising and focused training to lawyers, judges and prosecutors, the Department also visited the Council of Judges and Prosecutors, the Justice Academy, Supreme Council of Education (YÖK), Union of the Turkish Bar Associations, and the Ministry of Justice.
As usual, the Turkish authorities welcomed the Department's initiative and participated in a dynamic brain storming exercise, coming up with ideas that could help achieve concrete progress once implemented.
