Türkiye

Council of Europe Programme Office in Ankara

Presentations of Regional Round Table Meeting Online!

Please click on the topics listed below to watch presentations made in the round  table meeting on “Evaluation of Judgments on Deportation and Entry Bans within the context of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms” ” within the Joint Project on “Supporting the Individual Application to the Constitutional Court of Turkey”. You can also watch the opening and closing speeches and question- answer sessions.

*Videos are available only in Turkish

Opening remarks

Pınar Başpınar, Deputy Head of Council of Europe Ankara Programme Office

Muammer Topal, Member of the Constitutional Court

FIRST SESSION

Chair: Prof Nuray Ekşi, Yeditepe University  

Duties, structuring and functioning of the Directorate General of Migration Management 

 Ramazan Seçilmiş, Head of International Relations Department, Directorate General of Migration Management

Deportation and entry ban procedures according to Law no. 6458 

Advocate Gamze Gül Çakır, Directorate General of Migration Management, Legal Office

Question – Answer

Duties, structuring and functioning of UNHCR

Dicle Ergin, Refugee Status Determination, UNHCR

Problems experienced by applicants in deportation and entry ban procedures

Advocate Ayşegül Tansen, Chair of Working Group, Refugee Rights Centre, Union of Turkish Bar Associations

General evaluation on deportation and entry ban procedures

Assistant Prof Serçin Kutucu, Kemerburgaz University

Question – Answer

SECOND SESSION

Chair: Kadir Özkaya, Member of the Constitutional Court

Suspension of deportation and entry ban procedures / Evaluation of measure requests by the Constitutional Court and related judgments

Sinan Armağan, Rapporteur, Constitutional Court

Evaluation of deportation and entry ban procedures by the Constitutional Court within the context of state’s positive obligations and related judgments

M. Serhat Mahmutoğlu, Rapporteur, Constitutional Court

Evaluation of burden of proof in deportation procedures

Gizem Ceren Demir Koşar, Assistant Rapporteur, Constitutional Court

Evaluation of interim measure and substantive judgments of the Constitutional Court

Prof Nuray Ekşi, Yeditepe University

Question – Answer

Review of requests for suspension of execution in deportation and entry ban procedures by Administrative Courts and problems experienced

Rıza Şengül, Member of İstanbul First Administrative Court

Evaluation of annulment actions for deportation and entry ban procedures by administrative courts and problems experienced  

Nazım Taha Koçak, Member of Konya Regional Administrative Court of Appeals

Evaluation of annulment actions for deportation and entry ban procedures by the Council of State and problems experienced

Ersin Yılmaz, Reporter Judge, 10th Chamber, Council of State

Question – Answer              

Evaluation of deportation and entry ban procedures by the European Court of Human Rights and related judgments of the court

Tuğçe Duygu Köksal, CoE expert, Former rapporteur of ECtHR  

Experience of Spain in deportation and entry ban procedures

Prof Juan Antonio Hernández Corchete, Constitutional Court of Spain

Evaluation and comparison of judgments of the ECtHR with the judgments of the Constitutional Court

Prof Mehmet Semih Gemalmaz, Retired Academic, Istanbul University

Question – Answer

Closing speech

Kadir Özkaya, Member of the Constitutional Court