TURKISH TOURISTS AND EUROPEAN JUSTICE. The Demirkan ruling and how Turkey can obtain visa-free travel
TURKISH TOURISTS AND EUROPEAN JUSTICE. The Demirkan ruling and how Turkey can obtain visa-free travel
Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: ESI – European Stability Initiative
Keywords: Leyla Ecem Demirkan; visa-free travel; Turkey-EU relations;
Summary/Abstract: On 24 September 2013 many eyes across the EU and Turkey turned to Luxembourg. There, at just after nine-thirty in the morning, the Court of Justice of the European Union (or European Court of Justice, ECJ) delivered a judgement in one of its most important cases this year.1 The issue at stake was visa-free access to EU countries for Turkish citizens. || At the centre of the court case was Leyla Ecem Demirkan, a 20-year old Turkish woman from the city of Mersin, now a student in Izmir. When Leyla was a teenager, her mother married a German, Jorg Huber. In October 2007, Leyla wanted to visit her stepfather and applied at the German consulate in Ankara for a visa.2 Her request was denied. She went to court, arguing that Germany’s visa requirement for Turkish citizens was illegal to start with, as it conflicted with the rights accorded to Turkish citizens by the 1963 Turkey-EU Association Agreement.
Series: ESI Reports
- Page Count: 22
- Publication Year: 2013
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF