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Mural depicting human rights in Turkey. The listed rights are: consumption rights, the right of a clean environment, the right to obtain information, the right to life, voting rights, the right to education, freedom of thought, right to health, equality, habeas corpus.

Human rights in Turkey are protected by a variety of international law treaties, which take precedence over domestic legislation, according to Article 90 of the 1982 Constitution. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) was not signed by Turkey until 2000.[1] As of today, however, Turkey is party to 16 out of 18 international human rights treaties of the United Nations.[2] The issue of human rights is of high importance for the negotiations with the European Union (EU).

In 2022, Freedom House rated Turkey's human rights at 32 out of 100 (not free).[3]

  1. ^ Arat, Zehra F. Kabasakal (1 January 2011). Human Rights in Turkey. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812201147 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ The info was achieved through [1] Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine; accessed on 11 January 2022
  3. ^ Freedom House, 2022 report