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The Logics of Supranational Human Rights Litigation, Official Acknowledgment, and Human Rights Reform: The Southeast Turkey Cases before the European Court of Human Rights, 1996-2006

  • This article examines the domestic impact of supranational human rights litigation on acknowledgment of state violence in the context of macroprocesses of global governance. The article's argument is that the impact of supranational human rights litigation on the process of acknowledgment must be seen through counternarratives on state violence. The article undertakes a detailed textual analysis of the truth claims and denial strategies that emerged from the European Court of Human Rights proceedings on state violence during Turkey's struggle against the armed group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). It assesses these in the context of the human rights reforms that were created following pressure from European-level governance processes. The article argues that attention must be paid to agency in acknowledgment and truth-telling processes, and points to the limits of technical-bureaucratic forms of human rights reform interventions in the context of state violence.

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Metadaten
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Başak Çalı
Parent Title (English):Law and Social Inquiry
ISSN:1747-4469
Publication year:2010
First Page:311
Last Page:337
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2010.01187.x
Release Date:2017/08/03
Tag:European Council; European Court of Human Rights; Government reform; Human rights; Law reform; Litigation; Social law; Terrorism; Torture
Volume:35
Issue:2
Hertie School Research:Centre for Fundamental Rights
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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