The Turkish Constitutional Court found by majority that the Van Governor's Office's 15-day blanket ban on events across the province in 2019 violated rights, and ordered 50,000 lira (TL) in non-pecuniary damages to applicant lawyer Mahmut Kaçan. The reasoning was published in the Official Gazette today.
The high court found it unlawful that the Governor's Office had imposed a blanket ban on demonstrations on abstract grounds without showing a "concrete and imminent danger", and ordered the file sent to the Van 2nd Administrative Court for retrial. The ruling had been issued on 8 January 2026.
