European Courts of Human Rights and the protection of individual rights and freedoms in Turkey

Abstract

Today, recognizing, protecting and developing the human rights has become universal. The aim of documents of human rights is to put human rights under protection on a supra-national field and specify universal standarts related to them. Although states are seen as a protector of human rights, historical experiences showed that human rights were mostly violated by states, as well. Natural domineer of human rights are national domineers. In protection of human rights, it is only possible for international judgment organization to come into play in second phase when national judges have incapability and deficiency. In the order that European Convention on Human Rights adopted, human rights should be protected in domestic law. So, For people to utilize assurances that international documents provide, firstly, they need to use up domestic law ways.