Emre Turkut, Ph.D, LL.M

Lecturer International Relations & Diplomacy
emre.turkut@aauni.edu

Letenska 5, Prague 1

Dr. Turkut is a lecturer in the School of International Relations and Diplomacy.

He received his Ph.D in international law from Ghent University and remains an affiliated researcher at the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI). Before joining AAU, Emre was a post-doctoral researcher at the Hertie School鈥檚 Centre for Fundamental Rights from 2021 to 2023.

Turkut鈥檚 research covers a variety of fields within the domains of public international law, international human rights law and comparative constitutional law. His research outputs have appeared in top-tier journals and received several scholarly awards and prizes including an honorable mention for the American Society of Comparative Law鈥檚 prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize in Comparative Law in 2020.

Turkut previously taught at the Riga Graduate School of Law and held a Swedish Institute visiting fellowship at Uppsala University from 2018 to 2019, along with a DAAD fellowship at the Hertie School from 2019 to 2020. From 2021 to 2022, he was likewise a re:constitution fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the European Court of Human Rights.

Along with his academic work, Turkut is frequently contacted by NGOs and global media platforms to give expert opinions on issues of human rights, international law and Turkish law. He also serves as a legal consultant and expert witness on Turkish law to several private entities.

Specializations

states of emergency, derogations, counter-terrorism and human rights, algorithmic persecution, authoritarian rule of law, judicial politics in authoritarian regimes, international law in domestic courts and transnational judicial dialogue.

Media Appearances

  • 鈥溾�� an interview on the Council of Europe鈥檚 engagement with Turkey, Balkan Insight, 11 October 2023
  • 鈥溾�� (in German) an interview on Turkey鈥檚 human rights record and post-coup trials, DTJ Online, 2 August 2023
  • 鈥溾�� an interview on the PACE鈥檚 new report on transnational repression, Balkan Insight, 23 June 2023
  • 鈥溾�� (in Polish) an interview on Turkey鈥檚 elections of 14 May 2023, OKO.press, 12 May 2023
  • 鈥溾�� (in Swedish) an interview on Turkey鈥檚 post-coup dismissals, Arbetet, 30 November 2021
  • 鈥溾�� (in Czech) an interview on Turkey鈥檚 post-coup dismissals, CT24, 27 November 2021
  • 鈥溾�� (in German) an interview on Turkey鈥檚 post-coup dismissals from the Turkish army, Netzpolitik, 26 November 2021
  • 鈥溾�� an interview on Turkey鈥檚 decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, Balkan Insight, 24 March 2021
  • 鈥溾�� an interview on potential closure case of the pro-Kurdish Peoples鈥� Democratic Party, HDP, Balkan Insight, 17 February 2021
  • 鈥溾�� an interview on the ECtHR鈥檚 implementation of priority policy in relation to cases from Turkey, Ahval News, 25 November 2020
  • 鈥溾�� (in Dutch) an interview on the ECtHR鈥檚 Osman Kavala case, NRC, 20 February 2020
  • 鈥溾�� an interview on the ECtHR鈥檚 Osman Kavala case, Courthouse News Service, 19 February 2020
  • 鈥溾��, an interview on the post-coup dismissals, The Globe and Mail, 2 January 2018

Academic Publications

Journal Articles

  • 2023聽聽 鈥溾�� Re:Constitution Paper, Forum Transregionale Studien, 20/2023
  • 2022聽聽 鈥溾��, Jus Cogens pp. 263-284.
  • 2022聽聽 鈥溾��, European Yearbook of Human Rights, Intersentia, pp. 445-482
  • 2021聽聽 鈥溾��, The Commentaries 1(1) Transnational Press London, pp.97-104
  • 2021聽聽 鈥溾��, The ECHR Law Review 2(2), pp. 209-240
  • 2020聽聽 鈥溾��, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 38(4), pp. 264-282 (with Sabina Garahan)
  • 2020聽聽 鈥溾�� European Human Rights 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Law Review 18(3), pp.288-297
  • 2019聽聽 鈥溾�� Security & Human Rights 28(1-4), pp.1-33
  • 2018 聽 鈥溾�� Human Rights Law Review 18(3), pp.539-565 (with Tom Ruys)
  • 2017聽聽 鈥溾�� Italian Yearbook of International Law 26(1), pp.41-62 (with Ikboljon Qoraboyev)

Book Chapters

  • 2022聽聽 鈥溾�� in J. Grogan and A. Donald (eds.), 鈥淭he Routledge Handbook on Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic鈥� (Routledge), pp.248-259 (with Basak Cali)
  • 2021 聽 鈥溾�� in H. Aydin & W. Langley (eds.), Human Rights in Turkey: Assaults on Human Dignity (Springer Press) pp.109-129 (with Thomas Phillips)
  • 2020聽聽 鈥溾�� in Fulvio Maria Palombino (ed.) (Cambridge University Press) pp.336-354 (with Ikboljon Qoraboyev)

Expert Reports

2023   鈥� 鈥� 鈥� a report published by the Italian Federation of Human Rights (with Ali Yildiz and Kevin Dent)

2021   鈥溾�� 鈥� a report published by Statewatch (with Ali Yildiz).

2020   鈥溾�� (Rapporteurs鈥� report), Turkey Tribunal, September 2020 (with Yves Haeck)

2019-21 鈥淐hapter on Turkey鈥� in R. Albert, D. Landau, and P. Faraguna (eds.) ICONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law, The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (, and editions)