TURKEY AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE LIGHT OF ECHR JUDGMENTS

Authors : Ferzan DURUL

Pages : 180-203

Doi:10.14514/BYK.m.26515393.2019.7/1.180-203

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Publication Date : 2019-07-02

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Human rights, which are related to humans’ being able to realize themselves as honorable  beings and to live humanely, reach a mutual agreement on “protecting” and “improving” all  humans and states at an ideal level; whereas, they cannot provide stability in practice.  Although a number of measures have been taken, both internally and externally, to prevent the  violations of human rights, there has been an increase in the number of violations as well as an  increase in the variety of those violations. This increase required the establishment of new  control mechanisms by all means. European Court of Human Rights emerges to be the judicial  body of these control mechanisms. The sphere of influence of the ECHR, which has recently  gained popularity and is seen as the final point to bring justice by many citizens, has  considerably expanded as a result of the number of members in European Council hitting 47.  ECHR is a control mechanism established by European Convention of Human Rights. This  study crystallizes the human rights at a conceptual level and statistically analyses a total of  207 judgments (cases) on freedom of expression, which resulted against Turkey in ECHR  between the years 1987 and 2011. The data in question have been collected from HUDOC19  ECHR’s own database), and Ministry of Justice’s20 database.
Keywords : AİHM, AİHS, İfade Ögürlüğü, Hak, İnsan Hakları