The impact of judgments issued by the Constitutional Court of Türkiye in the context of individual applications and the role of Turkish lawyers in human rights protection were at the centre of discussions during the training-of-trainers (ToT) workshop held in Ankara on 19-20 January 2023, under the EU-CoE Joint Project on Supporting the Effective Implementation of Turkish Constitutional Court Judgments in the Field of Fundamental Rights.
The training aimed to test and adapt the methodology of the forthcoming cascade training programme, which is planned to reach hundreds of lawyers until 2025. The training-of-trainers workshop, as the first in a series of 14 separate workshops, was delivered by Assoc. Dr. Ali Ersoy Kontacı of the Ankara University Faculty of Law and gathered 15 trainer lawyers from 13 provinces across Türkiye.
The lively workshop sessions covered a breadth of issues and challenges, ranging from creative training delivery methods to the binding force of individual application judgments, the consequences of their non-enforcement, and more generally, the objective and subjective impacts of judgments issued by the Constitutional Court of Türkiye.
The Joint Project on “Supporting the Effective Implementation of Turkish Constitutional Court Judgments in the Field of Fundamental Rights” is co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe. The Turkish Constitutional Court is the end beneficiary of the Project.
