TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluation of the Turkish Constitutional Court’s Decisions Regarding Transsexuals’ Individual Applications Following the Rejection of Their Name Change Requests
AB  - A person’s name distinguishes them from others and makes them unique. Due to its importance, the principle of the  invariance of the name has been accepted as a rule in the Turkish Civil Code No. 4721 (TCC). However, a person can  request the change of a name that they do not identify with from the court, only on the basis of valid reasons, pursuant  to TCC art. 27. One of these valid reasons, which is frequently encountered in judicial decisions, is that the person is  known by another name in their social life. Despite the fact that they are based on such a valid reason, which is generally  accepted  in  the  decisions  included  in  this  study,  some  name  change  requests  of  transsexuals  were  rejected  by  local  courts as the issue was associated with gender reassignment, and the applicant then made individual applications to the  Constitutional Court. Regarding these applications, the Constitutional Court decided that the right to respect for private  life had been violated. The aim of this study is to examine the name change in light of these two recent decisions of the  Constitutional Court.
AU  - Yılmaz, İmge Hazal
DO  - 10.26650/annales.2023.72.0001
PY  - 2023
JO  - Annales de la Faculté de Droit d Istanbul
VL  - 0
IS  - 72
SN  - 0578-9745
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1183335
ER  -