nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170130-094855 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170127s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170130-094855 doi eng 342 23 Haimerl, Maria Author aut The Turkish Constitutional Court under the Amended Turkish Constitution Haimerl, Maria Verfassungsblog 2017-01-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In March 2016, the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) ruled that the rights of the Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül had been violated, leading to their release from prison after three months. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan responded by criticizing the TCC sharply, questioning its existence and legitimacy. This had not been the first time over the last years, that the Court had been attacked. The constitutional amendments, that will be put to referendum in April 2017, seemed to be a golden opportunity to change the composition and cut back the broad competences of the TCC. Did the AKP-led Parliamentary Constitutional Committee seize this opportunity? CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Rule of Law State of Emergency Turkish Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-turkish-constitutional-court-under-the-amended-turkish-constitution/ raw object