Mine Yildirim

Dr. Mine Yildirim is a scholar of human rights law and a leading expert on international protection of religious freedom in Turkey. She is the founder of the Freedom of Belief Initiative, established in 2011 as the first Turkish human rights based initiative specializing in freedom of religion or belief. She continues to work with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee on this initiative monitoring and reporting on freedom of religion or belief in Turkey.

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The Turkish Constitutional Court – An Effective Remedy or a Way to Avoid ECtHR Cases?

The Turkish Constitutional Court – An Effective Remedy or a Way to Avoid ECtHR Cases?

Turkey’s Constitutional Court (Anayasa Mahkemesi – AYM) issued an important judgment in May 2019, addressing State interference in the election of a religious leader, namely the obstruction of the election of a Patriarch for the ...