Dilek Kurban

Limits of Supranational Justice

The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the dramatic story of how ordinary Kurds and their lawyers tried to mobilize the European Court of Human Rights against state violence in Turkey. It meticulously documents the reasons behind their successes and failures, providing sobering conclusions on the limitations of supranational courts in dealing with authoritarian regimes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 409
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781108702324
• ISBN-10: 1108702325
• Artikelnr.: 64222589

Autorenporträt

Dilek Kurban is a Fellow and Lecturer at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research interests include legal mobilisation, supranational courts, the European Court of Human Rights and authoritarian regimes. Until 2013, she was the Director of the Democratization Program at TESEV, Turkey's leading policy think tank at the time. The research culminating in the publication of this book received the 2019 Erasmus Research Prize in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Historical Background: 2. Turkey under European watch: lip service to democracy and human rights
3. The Kurdish question in historical context
4. The actors, acts and victims of state violence
Part II. Kurdish Legal Mobilization against State Violence: 5. From grassroots to transnational: Kurdish legal mobilization before the ECtHR
6. The ECtHR's legacy on the Kurdish conflict
7. Conclusion
References
Index.