335,324 individual applications to Constitutional Court since 2012

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The Constitutional Court has shared the statistics on individual applications in a report on its official website.

The report has shown that 335,324 complaints about violations of rights were submitted to the top court from September 23, 2012, when the right to individual application was granted, to September 30, 2021.

While 276,307 of these applications were finalized by the top court, 59,017 applications are still pending.

Highest number of applications in 2016

The report has shared information about the number of applications by year. The year when the highest number of individual applications were submitted to the Constitutional Court was 2016, when a State of Emergency was declared in Turkey following the coup attempt on July 15.

The numbers by year are as follows:

• 2012 - 1,342
• 2013 - 9,897
• 2014 - 20,578
• 2015 - 20,376
• 2016 - 80,756
• 2017 - 40,530
• 2018 - 38,186
• 2019 - 42,971
• 2020 - 40,402
• 2021/3 - 40,286

Nearly 90 percent found 'inadmissible'

Of the 276,307 individual applications finalized by the Constitutional Court, 246,752 (89.3 percent) were found "inadmissible".

The top court concluded that there was at least one violation of right in 14,911 applications, which accounts for 5.4 percent of finalized applications.

Of these 14,911 applications, the Court concluded that the right to fair trial was violated in 62.5 percent, the right to property was violated in 19.1 percent and freedom of expression was violated in 4.2 percent.

The distribution of rulings of rights violations by rights and freedoms are as follows: Prohibition of ill treatment - 3.3 percent, the right to life - 1.1 percent, prohibition of discrimination - 0.8 percent and freedom of assembly - 0.8 percent. (KÖ/SD)