Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey)’s organised a Symposium entitled “The Manifestation of Religion or Belief in the Public Sphere” in association with Faculty of Law at University of Oxford on 14 June 2014.
The event consisted of two panels in which four panellists took part. The first panel focused on the diverging jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights with the presentations of Michael Wiener, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford an JJuris Rudevskis, European Court of Human Rights. The second panel took a comparative approach with the presentations of Mine Yıldırım, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, who depicted the legislation and practice in Turkey, and Erica Howard, Middlesex University, who provided an overview of the situation in the UK.