Serap Yazıcı

Prof. Dr. Serap Yazıcı
Born	1963 (age 61–62) Ankara, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Education	Law
Alma mater	Ankara University, Law School
Occupation	Academic
Organization	Istanbul Şehir University
Political party	New Path

Serap Yazıcı (born 1963 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and academic of Constitutional Law.[1] She was a member of a committee tasked with drafting a proposal for the new constitution of Turkey.

She was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Antalya in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election.[2] Although she was member of the Future Party, she was elected from the Republican People's Party list.

Early years

At the age of thirteen, she lost her eyesight in a car accident with her family, at which her mother was killed.[1]

She was educated in the Faculty of Law at Ankara University, and graduated earning a bachelor's degree in 1984. In 1995, Yazıcı completed her postgraduate studies at the same university, and obtained the title Doctor of Law.[3]

Career

In 1998, Yazıcı was appointed professor of Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University, where she served until 2012.[1][4] She used to be a faculty member at Istanbul Şehir University.[3]

She was a member of the six-person committee tasked by the then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with drafting a proposal for the new constitution of Turkey.

She has been critical of the constitution drafted after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, saying "In the Turkish judicial system, the number of rulings that were based on the principle of objectivity would most likely be in the minority".[5]

References

1. Akman, Nuriye (2009-10-18). "[Röportaj] Prof. Dr. Serap Yazıcı: Görmediğimin farkında değilim". Zaman (in Turkish). Retrieved 2014-11-14.
2. "CHP Antalya milletvekili adayı Serap Yazıcı kimdir? Serap Yazıcı nereli, kaç yaşında?". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 2023-12-04. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
3. "Prof. Dr. Serap Yazıcı" (in Turkish). İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi. Archived from the original on 2017-06-16. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
4. Doğani Yonca Poyraz (2010-04-12). "Yazıcı: Constitutional reforms aim at ending juristocracy". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
5. "TESEV report: Law supreme neither for society nor judiciary". Today's Zaman. 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2014-11-14.