Turkey's Constitutional Court

Former main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Enis Berberoğlu has returned to the Turkish Parliament following last month's Constitutional Court's verdict, which said his rights were violated when convicted and stripped of his immunity.

Administrative and judicial authorities should comply with the verdicts of the Constitutional Court, the top court's chair said on Feb. 9, while emphasizing that ignoring Constitutional Court's decisions may cause the constitution to become dysfunctional.

The rulings of the Constitutional Court are binding, and its decisions should be implemented, Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül said on Jan. 22, elaborating the top court's recent verdict on former main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu.

Turkey's Constitutional Court once again ruled on Jan. 21 that the rights of former main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu were breached, noting that the verdict given earlier has not been implemented yet.

CHP Group Deputy Chair Engin Altay has called on high and local courts to meet the demand of the Constitutional Court.

The General Assembly of Turkey's Constitutional Court, the country's highest, ruled on Dec. 29 that businessman Osman Kavala's detention did not violate his rights to liberty and security.

Kavala, 63, has been jailed since late 2017.

Racism and discrimination are notions a lot more dangerous for humankind's future than the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkey's top judge has said, as many parts of the world, especially the U.S., are being swept by anti-racism protests over the killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the Soma mining disaster in 2014 happened due to procedures that violated the victims' right to life.

According to the top court's ruling, published on the Official Gazette dated March 9, "negligence and errors" caused 301 deaths.

Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled against the ban on access to Wikipedia, saying that it violates rights and freedoms.

Turkey's Constitutional Court, in an unprecedented decision, has overturned the revocation of a certificate of inheritance from a non-citizen.

Turkey's Constitutional Court has rejected the individual appeals of journalists Nazlı Ilıcak and Ahmet Altan on May 3, finding no rights violations in their lawsuits filed for aiding the plotters of a 2016 failed coup attempt, while ruling for a violation of rights in the case of Ali Bulaç, a former columnist of closed Zaman newspaper.