{"id":150,"date":"2007-01-31T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/digest\/archives\/150"},"modified":"2011-03-22T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:43:37","slug":"ecthr-on-elections-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2007\/01\/ecthr-on-elections-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"ECtHR on Elections in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 30, the European Court of Human Rights held 5-2 that Turkey had not violated two citizens’ right to free elections. The applicants’ political party had obtained approximately 46% of the votes in local elections, but had not satisfied the 10% national threshold necessary for the applicants to be seated in the national parliament. As a result, the seats were filled by candidates from parties that had received a much smaller percentage of the local vote. Before the Court, the applicants alleged that the Turkish law imposing the 10% limit violated article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights. For more information about the case, Yumak and Sadak v. Turkey<\/em>, see here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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