NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONAL MODELS IN COMPARATIVE LAW AND THE CASE OF TURKEY
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Regardless of its specifi c title in each country, the concept of national human rights institutions is used for the national institutions, which have made the accreditation demonstrating the compliance with the international standards. Having applied to the accreditation procedures, there are many institutions that acquired the quality of national human rights institution as ombudsman and commission model. Although dressed with a wide authorization to choose the institutional models the countries are expected to meet the international standards in line with the model chosen. The subject of this study will be to examine in which models compliant to the international standards national human rights institutions exist, what are the factors taken into consideration by the countries to determine the institution choice and what sort of an institutional structure must be preferred for Turkey
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