{"id":1148,"date":"2014-12-18T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:45:19","slug":"turkey-appeals-echr-verdict-on-compulsory-religion-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Appeals ECHR Verdict on Compulsory Religion Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>BIA News Desk<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On its last day of application, Turkey appealed to the European Court of Human Right (ECHR) verdict on compulsory religion classes including Alevi people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Voice of America, Turkey requested the case to be heard by the Grand Chamber, a higher board of ECHR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Covcas-ECHR-chamber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1149\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Covcas-ECHR-chamber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Covcas-ECHR-chamber.jpg 494w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Covcas-ECHR-chamber-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a>Now, 5 judges from the Grand Chamber will decide on the appeal application. The court may either admit or decline the application without any further explanation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Ruling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 2 February 2011, applicants Mansur Yal\u00e7\u0131n, Nam\u0131k Sofuo\u011flu, Serap Top\u00e7u, Ali Y\u00fcce, Ali Kaplan, Eylem Onat Karata\u015f, H\u00fcseyin Kaya, Sevin\u00e7 Ilg\u0131n, \u0130smail Ilg\u0131n, Cafer Aktan, Hakk\u0131 Sayg\u0131, Kemal Kuzucu, Y\u00fcksel Polat and Hasan K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 applied to ECHR, saying that Turkey violated their right to education according to Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 16, issuing a ruling on the complaint of 14 applicants, the European Court of Human Rights warned Turkey on the religious freedoms, saying that Turkey had to remedy the situation without delay, in particular by introducing a system whereby pupils could be exempted from religion and ethics classes without their parents having to disclose their own religious or philosophical convictions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling also reminded that Turkey\u2019s minorities with Christian and Jewish background were exempted from compulsory religion classes, underlining the possible clash values between Alevi families and public schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>BIA News Desk On its last day of application, Turkey appealed to the European Court of Human Right (ECHR) verdict on compulsory religion classes including <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1148\" title=\"Turkey Appeals ECHR Verdict on Compulsory Religion Classes\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-turkey-minority-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}