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MINISTERS’ DEPUTIES |
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CM/Del/Dec(2024)1501/H46-33 |
13 June 2024 |
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1501st meeting, 11-13 June 2024 (DH)
H46-33 İzzettin Doğan and Others (Application No. 62649/10), and Mansur Yalçın and Others (Application No. 21163/11) v. Turkey Supervision of the execution of the European Court’s judgments
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Decisions
The Deputies
1. recalling that the judgments in this group concern the authorities’ unjustified refusal to recognise the religious nature of the Alevi faith, which resulted inter alia in the discriminatory treatment of their followers and places of worship compared to followers and worships of the majority understanding of Islam, who benefit from legal recognition and religious public services financed by the State; they relate also to the limited compulsory nature of the religious culture and ethics classes, with only limited possibilities of exemption offering no appropriate options for the children of parents who have a religious or philosophical conviction other than that of Sunni Islam;
As regards individual measures
2. recalled that the applicants’ children are beyond the age of primary and secondary school in the Mansur Yalçın and Others case and that individual measures are linked with general measures in the İzzettin Doğan and Others case;
As regards general measures
3. welcomed the legislative measures taken by the authorities and their practical impactproviding the Alevi community with public religious service financed by the State in the form of: 1) construction and maintenance of places of worship, 2) payment of their electricity, water and gas fees, 3) recognition and recruitment of religious leaders as civil servants and 4) organisation of activities paid by the State budget;
4. considering the margin of appreciation of States in the organisation of their cooperation with religious communities and that the adopted measures appear capable of eliminating the imbalance in the religious public services provided by the State, decided to close their supervision of the case of İzzettin Doğan and Others and adopted Final ResolutionCM/ResDH(2024)124;
5. adopted Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)125 concerning the issue of compulsory religious culture and ethics classes.