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  • Zelal Pelin Doğan

Redressing or Acknowledging Human Rights Violations? The Roles of the ECtHR in the Otegi Cases

January 06, 2026

by Zelal Pelin Doğan When the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) finds that a Convention right has been violated, what does that finding ultimately secure for the individual concerned? Does it restore the applicant, as far as possible, to the position they would have occupied absent the violation, or does it increasingly function as […]