The Fourth Training Seminar of the Project on Raising Awareness on the Procedures of the Individual Application in the Area of Human Rights was held in Adana

The 4^rd Training Seminar of the Project on “Raising Awareness on the Procedures of the Individual Application in the Area of Human Rights” was held on 23 May 2014 in Adana. 

The Project which has been launched as of 1 October 2013 is supported by the British Embassy in the framework of Reuniting Europe Programme and implemented by the Ministry for EU Affairs jointly with the Constitutional Court, Ombudsman Institution, Human Rights Institution of Türkiye and Ministry of Justice.

Representatives from provincial and district human rights committees, bar associations, professional organisations, civil society organizations, and local media participated in the project seminar which aims to raise the awareness in the society about the newly introduced application procedures in the field of human rights.

In the opening speech, Mr. Ege Erkoçak (Director of Political Affairs-Ministry for EU Affairs) stated that Türkiye’s EU accession process has been an important catalyst for reforms and institutionalisation in the field of human rights in Türkiye.

During the speech, Mr. Erkoçak stated that important reforms have been carried out in the field of protection of human rights in order to strengthen the fundamental rights and freedoms within the scope of Copenhagen Political Criteria and Chapter 23 Judiciary and Fundamental Rights.

He also emphasized that one of the most important steps in order to guarantee of human rights through institutional mechanisms in Türkiye have been the individual application to the Constitutional Court within the framework of Constitutional Amendment Package in 2010 and the establishment of the Ombudsman Institution and Human Rights Institution of Türkiye in 2012.

Furthermore, representatives of the institutions (The Constitutional Court, Human Rights Institution and Ombudsman Institution) made presentations on daily functioning of the institutions; individual application procedure, complaint handling procedure, filing techniques, registering, investigating, decision making process.