nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201019-113328-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201019s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201019-113328-0 doi eng 342 23 Uçarer, Onur Can Author aut Diminishing Authority The Refusal of Turkish Criminal Courts to implement Constitutional Court rulings Uçarer, Onur Can Verfassungsblog 2020-10-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on 17 September 2020 that the right to be elected and right to personal liberty of Enis Berberoğlu, an opposition MP, have been violated. As a remedy to this violation, the TCC ordered the Istanbul 14th Criminal Court of First Instance to start a re-trial in order to eliminate the consequences of these violations. Yet, the Court of First Instance did not implement this decision. The unfolding of these events creates political and legal controversy and harms the – already vulnerable – credibility and legitimacy of the TCC. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Court fair trial fundamental rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/diminishing-authority/ raw object