Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781108702324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 409 str.

Dilek Kurban

Opis

A rich and gripping account of the challenges of transnational legal mobilization against an authoritarian regime engaged in state violence.

Recenzje

'Dr Kurban's rich empirical study documents the struggles of domestic Kurdish legal rights activists to mobilize the European Court of Human Rights, as well as on the ground to challenge the injustices of a violently repressive Turkish state. The historically contextualized qualitative research is masterfully executed, the book is very well written, and the multi-disciplinary analysis of both creative bottom-up mobilization and restrained top-down judicial effectiveness is compelling. Kurban's book is a major addition to research on legal mobilization by subaltern populations in authoritarian regimes.' Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of Washington

Spis treści

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.