AVRUPA KONSEYİ İNSAN HAKLARI KOMİSERİ’NİN ÜYE DEVLETLERİN CEZA ve CEZA MUHAKEMESİ HUKUKUNA ETKİSİ

Year 2021, Volume: 25 Issue: 2, 905 - 971, 08.05.2021

Burcu Baytemir Kontacı

https://doi.org/10.34246/ahbvuhfd.933637

Abstract

Avrupa Konseyi İnsan Hakları Komiseri, insan hakları konusunda eğitimi, farkındalığı ve saygıyı teşvik etmek amacıyla yetkilendirilmiş olan, bağımsız şekilde çalışması öngörülen ve fakat yargısal niteliği bulunmayan bir Avrupa Konseyi organıdır.
Komiser’in görevi, esas olarak, “insan hakları konusunda farkındalık yaratmak” ve “üye devletlerde insan hakları standartlarının yükseltilmesini sağlamak” olarak belirlenmiştir. Buna karşın, Komiser’in görev tanımında ve yetkiler haritasında zaman içinde gerçekleştirilen bir dizi değişikliğin sonucu olarak, Komiser’in faaliyetlerinin gittikçe hukukileşen bir karakter kazanmakta olduğu görülmektedir. Bu bağlamda, Komiser tarafından yürütülen faaliyetlerin; Konsey üyesi devletler, Avrupa Konseyi Organları ve Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi’nin karar ve faaliyetleri üzerinde doğrudan ve dolaylı bazı etkiler doğurduğu gözlemlenmektedir. Bu etkilerin önemli bir bölümüyse, insan hakları hukuku ile ceza hukukunun kesişiminin bir sonucu olarak, ceza ve ceza muhakemesi alanlarında ortaya çıkmaktadır.
Bu çalışmada, İnsan Hakları Komiseri’nin kuruluşu, statüsü, görevleri, faaliyet ve araçları ile özellikle AİHM yargılamalarındaki rolü ve Mahkeme’nin ceza ve ceza muhakemesi hukuku alanındaki içtihadına etkisi ele alınacak; Komiser’in bu faaliyetlerinin Türkiye özelindeki etkisine de ayrı bir başlık altında değinilecektir.

Keywords

Avrupa Konseyi İnsan Hakları Komiseri, Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi, Ülke İzleme, Üçüncü Taraf Sıfatıyla Katılma, Ceza ve Ceza Muhakemesi Hukuku, Türkiye

THE EFFECTS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW OF THE MEMBER STATES

Abstract

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights is a non-judicial body of the Council of Europe empowered to promote education, awareness and respect for human rights.
The duty of the Commissioner is mainly determined as “raising awareness on human rights” and “promoting human rights standards in member states”. However, as a result of a series of changes in the Commissioner’s responsibilities and the map of powers over time, it is seen that the activities of the Commissioner gradually transformed into a mainly legal character. In this context, it is observed that the activities carried out by the Commissioner are having some direct and indirect effects on the member states of the Council, the Council of Europe Bodies and on the decisions and activities of the European Court of Human Rights. An important part of these effects arises in the fields of criminal and criminal procedure law, as a result of the intersection between human rights law and criminal law.
In this study, the establishment, status, duties, activities and tools of the Human Rights Commissioner, with special reference to its role in the ECtHR proceedings and the effect of the Court’s case-law in the field of criminal and criminal procedure law will be discussed. The impact on Turkey of the Commissioner’s activities will be addressed under a separate title.

Keywords

The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, Country Monitoring, Third Party Intervention, Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law, Turkey

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