2nd Constitution Writing Competition

Faculty of Law 2nd Constitution Writing Competition

Topic: Ombudsman (Public Monitoring Institution)

Five teams of students taking the Constitutional Law course at the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Law, who passed the preliminary round held on 1 December 2008, are incorporating the Ombudsman institution into the 1982 Constitution. They will defend their proposed amendments and their justifications before the jury and the audience.

The ombudsman (public monitoring institution) law prepared in 2006 had been taken to the Constitutional Court by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer on the grounds that some of its articles were unconstitutional. The Court had suspended the entry into force of the Law until it announced its decision. There has been no development since then. The European Union, on the other hand, gave extensive coverage to the ombudsman institution in its 2008 Türkiye Progress Report and encouraged its establishment:

"The establishment of the long-delayed ombudsman system is key to preventing tensions in society."

How will our students incorporate this long-delayed institution into the 1982 Constitution?
Could the arrangements they propose be a solution to our problems?

The 2nd Constitution Writing Competition, in which the audience will also influence the outcome with their votes, will take place on

Monday, 29 December 2008

at 13:30

at the Bahçeşehir University

Beşiktaş Campus

Fazıl Say Stage.