Anglo-American University in Prague Emre Turkut, Ph.D, LL.M
Letenska 5, Prague 1
Dr. Turkut is a lecturer in the School of International Relations and Diplomacy.
He received his Ph.D in international law from Ghent University and remains an affiliated researcher at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI). Before joining AAU, Emre was a post-doctoral researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights from 2021 to 2023.
Turkut’s research covers a variety of fields within the domains of public international law, international human rights law and comparative constitutional law. His research outputs have appeared in top-tier journals and received several scholarly awards and prizes including an honorable mention for the American Society of Comparative Law’s prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize in Comparative Law in 2020.
Turkut previously taught at the Riga Graduate School of Law and held a Swedish Institute visiting fellowship at Uppsala University from 2018 to 2019, along with a DAAD fellowship at the Hertie School from 2019 to 2020. From 2021 to 2022, he was likewise a re:constitution fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the European Court of Human Rights.
Along with his academic work, Turkut is frequently contacted by NGOs and global media platforms to give expert opinions on issues of human rights, international law and Turkish law. He also serves as a legal consultant and expert witness on Turkish law to several private entities.
Specializations
states of emergency, derogations, counter-terrorism and human rights, algorithmic persecution, authoritarian rule of law, judicial politics in authoritarian regimes, international law in domestic courts and transnational judicial dialogue.
Media Appearances
- “Outside Pressure Key to Turkish Compliance with European Court Ruling” an interview on the Council of Europe’s engagement with Turkey, Balkan Insight, 11 October 2023
- “Verfolgung von Gülen-Anhängern: Bericht offenbart massive Justiz-Mängel” (in German) an interview on Turkey’s human rights record and post-coup trials, DTJ Online, 2 August 2023
- “CoE: Turkey Using Sweden’s NATO Membership Bid To Extend Repression” an interview on the PACE’s new report on transnational repression, Balkan Insight, 23 June 2023
- “Emocjonujący zwrot w Turcji! Erdoğan traci 5 punktów proc. wobec Kılıçdaroğlu” (in Polish) an interview on Turkey’s elections of 14 May 2023, OKO.press, 12 May 2023
- “Föräldrar till barn med Downs syndrom riskerar sparken i Turkiet” (in Swedish) an interview on Turkey’s post-coup dismissals, Arbetet, 30 November 2021
- “Turecká armáda používala algoritmy při čistkách od vládních odpůrců” (in Czech) an interview on Turkey’s post-coup dismissals, CT24, 27 November 2021
- “Türkei suchte nach mutmaßlichen Putschisten mit Algorithmus” (in German) an interview on Turkey’s post-coup dismissals from the Turkish army, Netzpolitik, 26 November 2021
- “Turkey’s Exit from Women’s Rights Treaty Could Embolden Populists” an interview on Turkey’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, Balkan Insight, 24 March 2021
- “BIRN Fact-Check: How Easily Can Turkey Close its Pro-Kurdish Party?” an interview on potential closure case of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP, Balkan Insight, 17 February 2021
- “The ECtHR’s priority policy is failing Turkey’s human rights victims” an interview on the ECtHR’s implementation of priority policy in relation to cases from Turkey, Ahval News, 25 November 2020
- “Filantroop Kavala: na gejuich toch weer de gevangenis in” (in Dutch) an interview on the ECtHR’s Osman Kavala case, NRC, 20 February 2020
- “Sparking Rage, Turkey Rearrests Acquitted Activist” an interview on the ECtHR’s Osman Kavala case, Courthouse News Service, 19 February 2020
- “More than 100,000 Turks who lost jobs after 2016 coup attempt await rulings”, an interview on the post-coup dismissals, The Globe and Mail, 2 January 2018
Academic Publications
Journal Articles
- 2023 “Endogenous Sources of Pandemic Governance: Executive Power and Lockdown Measures in Turkey, the United Kingdom and Germany” Re:Constitution Paper, Forum Transregionale Studien, 20/2023
- 2022 “Emergency Powers, Constitutional (Self-) Restraint and Judicial Politics: The Turkish Constitutional Court during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Jus Cogens pp. 263-284.
- 2022 “The Turkish post-coup emergency and European responses: shortcomings in the European system revisited”, European Yearbook of Human Rights, Intersentia, pp. 445-482
- 2021 “On the Collateral Impact of Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn: Re-securitization of the Kurdish Issue and the Kurds’ Struggle for Minority Recognition and Self-Determination”, The Commentaries 1(1) Transnational Press London, pp.97-104
- 2021 “The Venice Commission and Rule of Law Backsliding in Turkey, Hungary and Poland”, The ECHR Law Review 2(2), pp. 209-240
- 2020 “The ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ Test of Turkey’s Post-Coup Emergency Rule under the ECHR”, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 38(4), pp. 264-282 (with Sabina Garahan)
- 2020 “Osman Kavala v Turkey: unravelling the Matryoshka dolls” European Human Rights Law Review 18(3), pp.288-297
- 2019 “Accommodating security imperatives v. protecting fundamental rights: The challenge of states of emergency in the context of countering terrorism in Turkey” Security & Human Rights 28(1-4), pp.1-33
- 2018 “Turkey’s post-coup ‘purification process’: collective dismissals of the public servants under the European Convention on Human Rights” Human Rights Law Review 18(3), pp.539-565 (with Tom Ruys)
- 2017 “International Law in the Turkish Legal Order: Transnational Judicial Dialogue and the Turkish Constitutional Court” Italian Yearbook of International Law 26(1), pp.41-62 (with Ikboljon Qoraboyev)
Book Chapters
- 2022 “Turkey: Pandemic Governance and Executive Aggrandisement” in J. Grogan and A. Donald (eds.), “The Routledge Handbook on Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic” (Routledge), pp.248-259 (with Basak Cali)
- 2021 “Non-discrimination, minority rights and self-determination: Turkey’s post-coup state of emergency and the position of Turkey’s Kurds” in H. Aydin & W. Langley (eds.), Human Rights in Turkey: Assaults on Human Dignity (Springer Press) pp.109-129 (with Thomas Phillips)
- 2020 “Chapter 18: Turkey” in Fulvio Maria Palombino (ed.) Duelling for Supremacy: International Law vs. National Fundamental Principles (Cambridge University Press) pp.336-354 (with Ikboljon Qoraboyev)
Expert Reports
2023 “Perils of Unconstrained Prosecutorial Discretion: Prosecuting Terrorism Offences in Post-Coup Turkey” – a report published by the Italian Federation of Human Rights (with Ali Yildiz and Kevin Dent)
2021 “Algorithmic persecution in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown: The FETÖ-Meter system” – a report published by Statewatch (with Ali Yildiz).
2020 “Impunity in Turkey Today” (Rapporteurs’ report), Turkey Tribunal, September 2020 (with Yves Haeck)