There are numerous free websites that can assist in locating Turkish primary law, as well as secondary information on Turkish legal topics. Links to available English translations of Turkish law are listed below at right.
Cases in the ECHR where Turkey has been a respondent are available in HUDOC, the case database of the ECHR.
SSRN is an electronic repository for international social sciences scholarship that includes the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). Thousands of downloadable abstracts, working papers, and published papers are available without charge.
Note that the "World Constitutions Illustrated" database in HeinOnline also contains an English translation of the 1982 Constitutution current through Law No. 6214 of 2011.
Some Turkish government and NGO/IGO websites post English translations of Turkish legal materials. Note that the translations may not be official, or reflect the most current versions.
Prepared in the summer of 2009, updated in February 2012, this 23-page guide offers instructions and tips on how to research foreign, comparative, and international law at the LUC Law Library. The annotated guide lists print reference sources, subscription databases, free websites, and current awareness sources that may be useful when approaching foreign, comparative and international law questions.
