ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE IN TURKEY: STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES AND REFORM PROPOSALS INSPIRED BY LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCES


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REVISTA DE CIENCIAS JURIDICAS, cilt.170, sa.170, ss.1-23, 2026 (Hakemli Dergi)

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TurkeyRevista de Ciencias Jurídicas N°170 (1-23) MAYO-AGOSTO 2026fragmented procedural time limits, and insufficient judicial remedies against administrative inaction.This article adopts a comparative law approach to examine selected institutional and procedural mechanisms in Latin American administrative law, particularly in Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and El Salvador. These legal systems, which share a civil-law tradition and comparable institutional concerns, have introduced innovative judicial tools to strengthen administrative justice, including preventive injunctions, judicial enforcement orders, enforcement judges, and public-interestlitigation mechanisms.By analysing these comparative experiences, the article assesses their potential relevance for reforming the Turkish administrative judiciary. Rather than advocating a direct transplantation of foreign legal institutions, the study proposes context-sensitive reform models designed to address structural deficiencies within the Turkish system while remaining consistent with constitutional principles. It evaluatesthe extent to which selected Latin Americaninstitutional mechanisms may contribute to strengthening administrative judicial review in Turkey