This course provides a detailed comparative account of human rights protection systems in Turkey and the European Union in the light of the Turkey's progress reports prepared by the European Commission and the effects of the European Convention on Human Rights on Turkish laws, policy making and institutions. By going through specific rights themes, the students will gain a comprehensive understanding of policy transfer in terms of human rights.
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Course Learning Outcomes: Course Learning Outcome Assessment Comprehension of the theoretical underpinnings and practical implementation of complex concepts like international cooperation for human rights and international human rights regime. In-class participation Midterm:Essay/written Final:Essay/written Evaluate the reasons and scope of policy transfer from the EU to Turkey over time, regarding protection and promotion of human rights. In-class participation Midterm:Essay/written Final:Essay
Introduction of the Course Introducing Human Rights in Turkey • Compulsory Reading: Bayar (2025) ch.3 “Architecture of the European Human Rights Regime” • Compulsory Reading: Bayar (2025) ch.1 (Introduction: core argument & periodisation). Recommended reading: Arat, Z. F. "Collisions and crossroads: Introducing human rights in Turkey." Human rights in Turkey (2007): 1-18. Recommended reading: Keyman, E. Fuat, and Senem Aydιn Düzgit. "Europeanization, democratization and human rights in Turkey." In Turkey and the European Union, pp. 69-89. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2007. Human Rights in Turkish Constitutions • Compulsory Reading: Özbudun, Ergun. The constitutional system of Turkey: 1876 to the present. Springer, 2011. Bayar (2025) ch.4 “Turkey’s Human Rights Trajectory until 2002” (use for constitutional rupture/continuity framing). Turkish Constitutional Court (AYM), Individual Application guide/handbook (sections on admissibility + pilot judgments + effects). https://ww2.anayasa.gov.tr/media/2744/individualapplication.pdf Recommended Reading: Özbudun, Ergun. "Democratization reforms in Turkey, 1993–2004." Turkish Studies 8, no. 2 (2007): 179-196. Turkey’s Participation to Human Rights Regimes • Compulsory Reading: Türkmen, Fusun. "Turkey’s Participation in Global and Regional Human Rights Regimes’." Human rights in Turkey(2007): 249-261. Bayar (2025) ch.3 (Council of Europe system + how EU becomes a rights actor). European Commission’s Progress Reports on Turkey since 1998 • Compulsory Reading: Reports prepared by the commission: https://www.ab.gov.tr/regular-progress-reports_46224_en.html Gates, Andrea. "Mixed messages and mixed results: the EU's promotion of human rights in Turkey." European Law Journal15, no. 3 (2009): 401-411. Bayar (2025) (EU conditionality → reform packages; use the judiciary-reform/“packages” discussion as the bridge to progress reports). Recommended Reading: Aydin, Hasan, and Winston Langley. "Introducing human rights in Turkey." Human rights in Turkey: Assaults on human dignity (2021): 3-22. Minority Rights • Compulsory Reading: Toktas, Sule, and Bulent Aras. "The EU and minority rights in Turkey." Pol. Sci. Q. 124 (2009): 697. Oran, Baskın. "Minorities in Turkey I: Law and Reform." In The Commentaries–Volume 1, 2021, pp. 49-56. Transnational Press London, 2021. Oran, Baskın. "Minorities in Turkey II: Ideology and Discrimination." In The Commentaries–Volume 1, 2021, pp. 57-64. Transnational Press London, 2021. • Recommended Reading: Spielmann, Malte. "Kemalism, the Judiciary, and Human Rights Diffusion: The ECHR in Turkey." Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper 2021-18 (2021). Revision of the former weeks, Q&A, Mid-Term European Court of Human Rights and Turkey: Diffusion and Compliance Politics Ozbudun, Ergun, and Fusun Turkmen. "Impact of the ECtHR rulings on Turkey's democratization: an evaluation." Hum. Rts. Q. 35 (2013): 985. Bayar (2025) ch.3/ch.5 excerpts on E