A total of 78 lawyers from Tokat Bar Association (on 9-10 May 2024), Siirt Bar Association (on 10-11 May 2024) and Aydın Bar Association (on 17-18 May 2024) participated in the enriching two-day training on Procedures of Individual Application to the Constitutional Court. The trainings were organised within the framework of the European Union - Council of Europe Joint Programme on “Supporting the Effective Implementation of Turkish Constitutional Court Judgments in the Field of Fundamental Rights”. They were held in the premises of the respective bar associations.
Delivered by the experienced lawyer-trainers previously trained in the training of trainers sessions held under the Project, the trainings were successful in increasing the participants’ expertise on crucial matters related to the exhaustion of the legal remedies and time-limit for lodging an application, manifestly ill-founded applications and other admissibility criteria for the applications before the Turkish Constitutional Court.
Participants’ feedback highlighted that the trainings provided a platform for lively and engaging professional discussions. The consensus among the participants was that they benefited greatly from the explanations and discussions on topics such as the formal requirements for an individual application, the grounds for inadmissibility, the rights that cannot stand alone as subjects of an individual application, as well as the application procedures and deadlines, issues of errors in applications, manifestly ill-founded applications, and reasons for rejection of individual complaint applications.
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.
