The Constitutional Court (AYM) announced the statistics on individual applications between the dates June 23, 2012 and June 30, 2019. 223,330 applications were made at the court in total, 21,665 of which were made within the first six months of this year. 186,701 of those applications were concluded. “At least one right violation” was issued in 7,835 applications, 691 concluded in 2019. 53 percent of the decrees of violation (within 4,250 applications) were issued against the right to a fair trial; five percent (440 applications) were issued against the right to freedom of expression. Furthermore, 104 discrimination bans, 55 organisation freedom, 37 right to meeting and demonstration, 159 mistreatment ban violation decrees were issued.
Constitutional Court Chief Judge Zühtü Arslan made a statement last week and indicated that the number of individual applications continue to increase and that some legal amendments are now inevitable. “The purpose of individual application is not to evaluate each and every rights violation in the country separately, but to make decisions to eliminate the source of those rights violations,” Arslan stated.
29.07.2019
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