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Kosovo, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and International Right of Secession
Author: A. Füsun ARSAVA
Abstract: This article which investigates the impact of Kosovo's secession from Serbia in 2008 spring on international law and on the groups demanding secession from their states, verifies that in the light of the principle of territorial integrity, the approach of refusal of the right of secession even so for exceptional circumstances is principal. This article throws light on consideration the right of secession in international law as normative impression dimension as in Kosovo case in which an ethnic group declared the unilateral independence from their motherland.
Keywords: internal self-determination, external self-determination, recognition, unilateral declaration of independence, right of secession
The Interpretation of the ECHR on Compulsory Religious Education and Solution of the Problem in This Direction
Author: Baki ERKEN
Abstract: ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) developed jurisprudences on compulsory religious education according to the provisions of Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion and the Right of Education in the European Convention on Human Rights. Whether the freedom is a form of absolute rights, systematic indoctrination, being compelled to reveal religious beliefs, religious discrimination and respect for parental beliefs is important. Although the obligation of the religious education is not banned, it should be conducted in an objective, critical and democratic manner and should contain exemption system appropriate for differences. In the interpretation of the convention while ECHR does not give any discretionary power to member countries for the restriction of rights, it is possible for the lecture whether compulsory or not and having syllabus. In the case of violation of the freedoms and the...