The Judiciary in Autonomy Arrangements: Lessons for the Kurdish Case

In recent years, Kurdish political parties in Turkey have expressed their
strong opposition against the unitary state model and demanded a solution
that includes non-territorial autonomy, with cultural and linguistic
rights for Kurdish people, as well as territorial autonomy arrangements
with administrative, legislative and judicial power-sharing especially
in the areas mostly populated by Kurds. This article concentrates on the demand of Kurdish political parties for judicial power-sharing in the context of a possible autonomy
arrangement for Kurds in Turkey. Though such a claim is closely
linked to broader questions on the laws of Kurds, an under-researched the topic that deserves further in-depth work, this chapter focuses on the
implications of the demand by the Kurdish political opposition for judicial
power-sharing.