This article by Dilek Kurban, scholar of human rights law and visiting researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), discusses authoritarian resistance against international human rights courts as well as judicial complicity (and accommodation of authoritarian resistance). As a case study, it examines the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Turkey to illustrate a broader trend within the Council of Europe (CoE) system.
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