Courts of Turkey
Ordinary courts and administrative courts run in parallel, with a Constitutional Court that also hears individual applications.
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Ordinary courts
Court of Cassation (Yargıtay)
Regional Courts of Appeal
First-instance civil and criminal courts
Administrative courts
Council of State (Danıştay)
Regional administrative courts
Administrative and tax courts
Stands apart from the chain of appeals
Constitutional CourtReviews laws and hears individual applications
Worth knowing
- The model follows the French split between ordinary and administrative courts.
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