Information Note on the Court’s case-law 186
June 2015
Karakaş et Deniz v. Turkey (communicated case) - 29426/09 and 34262/09
Article 6
Disciplinary proceedings
Article 6-1
Access to court
No possibility of judicial appeal against a disciplinary penalty imposed on school teachers: communicated
The first and second applicants were teachers in a State school. Following disciplinary inquiries into various incidents, they were each reprimanded. Their requests to reconsider the measure were dismissed.
The applicants complain of their inability, at the time of the events, to lodge a judicial appeal against the disciplinary sanction imposed on each of them in the form of a reprimand. They allege a breach of their right of access to a court in that regard.
Communicated under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.
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