Işıl Karakaş, a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judge from Turkey, has been elected as Section President, becoming the first Turkish judge to be in the court’s administration.
After a vote held in the ECHR headquarters in Strasbourg, she was elected as section president with a majority vote.
5 ECHR judges serve as president to sections of 7 to 9 judges.
Among 6 candidates
Karakaş was elected among 6 candidates with the 47 members at the General Congress of ECHR .
ECHR President and 5 section presidents constitute the ECHR Higher Council - the head of the court’s administration. Decisions related to the court’s function and policies are determined in this council and then presented to General Assembly.
Vice President currently
Elected as ECHR judge in 2008, Karakaş will hold her post for 3 years. Since November 2013, Karakaş served as section vice president.
Karakaş’s term will be over in 2017. ECHR judges are elected for a single term of 9 years.
Karakaş will start her new post on January 1, 2015. (AS/BM)
Who is Işıl Karakaş? |
Ayşe Işıl Karakaş was born on 8 December 1958 in İstanbul, Turkey. In 1983, she graduated from the Department of Political Science of İstanbul University, and between 1984 and 1993, she worked as a research assistant in the same institution. In 1986, she gained her first master's degree in Public Law, İstanbul University. In 1986, she gained her second master's degree in the field of European Law at the Centre Européen Universitaire at the Nancy II University. In 1990, Karakaş graduated from the Faculty of Law of Marmara University, and was admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association in 1990. In 1992, she received her PhD degree in Public Law at İstanbul University. Between 1993 and 1999, Ayşe Işıl Karakaş was an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Istanbul University. She also worked at the Faculty of Law at the Galatasaray University between 1999 and 2003. Between 2002 and 2008, Karakaş was the Director of the Research and Documentation Centre on Europe at the Galatasaray University. Between 2003 and 2008, she worked as a full professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Galatasaray University. She was a visiting professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, of Reims UniversityReims, of Montpellier II, of Université Robert Schuman, and vice dean of the Faculty of Law at the Galatasaray University between 2004 and 2008. She is a judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Republic of Turkey since 1 May 2008. |
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