Abstract:
This chapter offers a critical account of how the Turkish (high) courts have
approached the complex questions that arise in domestic litigation concerning the
relationship between international law and Turkey’s domestic law. In what follows,
the chapter first engages in a theoretical debate and doctrinal exploration on the place
of international law in the Turkish domestic legal order. It also provides a brief
account of the Turkish constitutional approach to its international obligations, which
has been extensively interpreted, implemented and supplemented by the practices of
Turkish national legislative and executive organs. Second, and more importantly, it
maps the explicit and implicit influence of Turkish constitutional-national principles
in Turkish case law vis-à-vis Turkey’s international legal commitments.
