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This paragraph make is mandatory to exhaust administrative legal ways
envisaged by the Administrative Justice Procedures Law or obligatory
administrative recourse procedure defined in private law. This provision
is extending the resolution process and a public organization is pushed
to implement the recommendation by the Ombudsman in a satisfactory
fashion though it had already declined the demand of a citizen. And that
organization is expected to comply with such a recommendation.
Mr. Ombudsman, would you ask a question?

In the opening session this morning, Mr. Ombudsman expressed that they
aimed at elevating the number of compliance by the public organizations
with the recommendations of the Ombudsman. This provision that I have
been trying to talk about, once the mandatory application process is
eliminated, I feel that the public administration will much more listen to
the recommendations.
Please, I will continue later on.

M. NİHAT ÖMEROĞLU (Chief Ombudsman of Turkey)
Madame Professor, I do not intend to interrupt you. I appreciate if you
could go on.

CHAIR: Please, no problem.

M. NİHAT ÖMEROĞLU (Chief Ombudsman of Turkey )

I would like respond to the question by the Ombudsman of Sudan.
To put in other terms, I would like to complement your statement
Madame chair.
Without doubt, Turkey is a secular republic in equal distance to
all creeds, sects and religions. On the other hand, majority of the
population are Muslim. Though the Republic is administered according
to the secular laws, at the end of the day, wishes of the Muslim
majority are dealt with in line with freedom of religion and conscience
or once we receive such complaints, we make recommendations after
detecting what went wrong on the basis of this freedom.
As you do know, one of them is “the decision on head-scarf”. It was
a gang rain type of problem and head-scarved ladies could not work

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