RT Article
T1 Beyond legal victory or reform: the legal mobilisation of religious groups in the European Court of Human Rights
JF Religion, state & society
VO 45
IS 3/4
SP 317
OP 333
A1 Ozgul, Ceren
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571262229
AB This contribution considers the emergence of litigation in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as a common strategy for various grassroots groups. It explores the legal status problems of recognised non-Muslim minorities and belief groups in Turkey in three different yet interlinked fields: the confiscated property of minority foundations, the establishment of community associations and the status of worship places. The analysis in this contribution revolves around legal mobilisation in the ECtHR as a common strategy for various religious groups, focusing on the grassroots actors' perceptions of their legal status problems and litigation in the ECtHR and, in so doing, illuminating the grassroots level impact of ECtHR case law on religious minority groups. By placing the emphasis on an actor-centred approach to legal mobilisation, this contribution builds on social mobilisation scholarship that encourages a scrutiny of developments at the grassroots level in view of offering an understanding of the indirect effects of the Court's decisions. Rather than solely analyse government-initiated, central legal reform as a yardstick for the success or failure of a court's effects over a given country's policies, this contribution focuses on the indirect effects of the Court's decisions and draws attention to the much broader range of potential influence of court decisions over the issues which those decisions address.
K1 ECtHR
K1 Freedom Of Religion
K1 grassroots mobilisation
K1 Human Rights
K1 Religious Minorities
DO 10.1080/09637494.2017.1398931