Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Time: 12:30 – 13:30 (TR)
Venue: Bilkent University, Library Art Gallery
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ece Göztepe
Abstract:
Parliamentary law regulates the institutional organization, working procedures, and functioning of parliaments in constitutional democracies, forming the legal foundation of democracy as a political process. It determines how parliaments are constituted, how their work is carried out, and how their decisions are legitimized. In doing so, it not only provides legal safeguards for the constitutional principle of the democratic state but also ensures transparency and reliability in political processes.
Parliamentary law also serves to concretize the rule of “politics limited by law” in constitutional democracies. For this reason, it is inevitably connected with politics: it safeguards fundamental democratic principles (the separation of powers, the right of opposition, the protection of minorities) and contributes to shaping the political arena fairly between elections. Within this field of tension between normative order and political reality, it is evident that parliamentary law holds not only legal but also significant political importance.
About the Seminar:
After briefly outlining the fundamental constitutional principles, this presentation will provide a comparative analysis of constitutional court rulings in Turkey and Germany. In this context, current issues in parliamentary law and possible solutions will also be briefly addressed.
The language of the event is Turkish.
Organized by: Bilkent University Faculty of Law