nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20161121-110943 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 161121s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20161121-110943 doi eng 342 23 Karan, Ulaş Author aut Mercan v. Turkey: Waiting for the Last Word of the Turkish Constitutional Court Karan, Ulaş Verfassungsblog 2016-11-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier For the time being, the fallout of the attempted coup d’ètat of July 15th 2016 in Turkey will not reach Strasbourg. Victims of alleged human rights violations first have to exhaust domestic remedies before they can apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This is the result of Mercan v. Turkey, the first of more than 3000 applications regarding alleged violations after the attempted coup and the declaration of a state of emergency. The Strasbourg court views the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) not as per se incapable of adjudicating in these cases in an effective way. If the TCC can live up to these expectations remains to be seen. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coup d'Etat Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies Turkish Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/mercan-v-turkey-waiting-for-the-last-word-of-the-turkish-constitutional-court/ raw object