pieces of information in court case decisions is hard and complicated, especially
when the Constitutional Court’s tens of pages of decisions are taken into consideration. Thus, the team decided it would be appropriate to prepare a document to
make it easy to read those court case decisions. These two intentions were combined in a leaflet. The first part of the leaflet explained the right to access to
information and the process for using the right to access to information. The second
part of the leaflet explained how to reach court case decisions and then gave some
tips to make reading those decisions easier.
7.3.1.3 Working in the Field
After all the evaluations and teamwork, the project team decided on the court
decisions and network maps. Even though the technical process was completed by
the project team, it was believed from the outset that the possible end users of the
maps, the report and the leaflet would be the most important element. To serve this
crucial end, three different meetings and workshops with these three different groups
were organized: the Press, academics and activists. Activist meetings were held in
three different cities to reach activists from different environmental struggles.
Istanbul was chosen for ease of transportation. Izmir was chosen as being a point
where the fight against coal-fired power plants is intensive and has a long history. As
Mersin is planned to be the location of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant and has
been campaigning against the nuclear power plant since the 1970s, it was chosen as
the third city for holding an activists’ meeting. These meetings were held because
cooperation is always one of the key terms in an environmental struggle. As people
deal with the same problems in similar contexts, cooperation enables people to be
more powerful together. Opinions, suggestions and critiques from these meetings
and workshops were crucial to the project and were used to complete the project and
its new pathway. All the products of the project are accessible through the project
website and Transparency Turkey’s website. In addition to this, there is a Facebook
page
10 where members can interact on new cases.
7.4 Sample Cases Examined: Main Findings
The idea behind the project was to contribute to the environmental struggle. After
having difficulties in reaching the court decisions, the project team focused on the
decisions which were important but stayed under shadow. The importance of the
cases was decided by the lawyers and academics of the project by assessing
whether:
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when the Constitutional Court’s tens of pages of decisions are taken into consideration. Thus, the team decided it would be appropriate to prepare a document to
make it easy to read those court case decisions. These two intentions were combined in a leaflet. The first part of the leaflet explained the right to access to
information and the process for using the right to access to information. The second
part of the leaflet explained how to reach court case decisions and then gave some
tips to make reading those decisions easier.
7.3.1.3 Working in the Field
After all the evaluations and teamwork, the project team decided on the court
decisions and network maps. Even though the technical process was completed by
the project team, it was believed from the outset that the possible end users of the
maps, the report and the leaflet would be the most important element. To serve this
crucial end, three different meetings and workshops with these three different groups
were organized: the Press, academics and activists. Activist meetings were held in
three different cities to reach activists from different environmental struggles.
Istanbul was chosen for ease of transportation. Izmir was chosen as being a point
where the fight against coal-fired power plants is intensive and has a long history. As
Mersin is planned to be the location of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant and has
been campaigning against the nuclear power plant since the 1970s, it was chosen as
the third city for holding an activists’ meeting. These meetings were held because
cooperation is always one of the key terms in an environmental struggle. As people
deal with the same problems in similar contexts, cooperation enables people to be
more powerful together. Opinions, suggestions and critiques from these meetings
and workshops were crucial to the project and were used to complete the project and
its new pathway. All the products of the project are accessible through the project
website and Transparency Turkey’s website. In addition to this, there is a Facebook
page
10 where members can interact on new cases.
7.4 Sample Cases Examined: Main Findings
The idea behind the project was to contribute to the environmental struggle. After
having difficulties in reaching the court decisions, the project team focused on the
decisions which were important but stayed under shadow. The importance of the
cases was decided by the lawyers and academics of the project by assessing
whether:
10
The Facebook group can be reached at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/728138383963357/?
fref=ts.
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