The article by Associate Professor Dr. iur. Öykü Didem Aydın, Attorney at Law, President of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders Without Borders in Turkey, Member of the Venice Commission, describes the constitutional and statutory ground for declaring a state of emergency and for enacting decrees having force of law (decree-law) under a state of emergency in order to understand what the government is combatting and its procedural and principle limitations. Then she continues with the practices emanating from the declaration and examines whether they are in line with their constitutional and statutory foundation as well as with international standards for basic rights and fundamental freedom.

Öykü Didem Aydin on Emergency State_August 2016_PDF