Yeşim M. Atamer and Z. Damla Taşkın: “The Legal Regime of Transsexuals”

The paper titled “The Legal Regime of Transsexuals: The Current Practice, Violation of the Turkish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights and Proposals for a Revision” written by the Member of the Faculty of Law Prof. Dr. Yeşim M. Atamer and Research Assistant Z. Damla Taşkın of Istanbul Bilgi University is published on Yargıtay Dergisi (Journal of the Court of Cassation). The paper aims at identifying the deficits of Article 40 of the Turkish Civil Code which governs the requirements and procedures of changing the gender marker of transsexuals in the civil status register. To download the paper in PDF (in Turkish) please click.