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When we look at the democratic countries of our day, we will see
that the current implementation is no different than this one. Among
the international conventions, European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR) jurisprudence is the one consisting of the most admissible
verdicts with the highest power of sanction in force today in Europe
and worldwide, especially in respect to human rights. Consequently,

taking the ECHR as the truest reference guide in not only matters of
human rights, but also regarding language, culture and identity,
which also constitute the parts of human rights is the accurate
approach. ECHR jurisprudence contains numerous rulings that reject
the search for a different language in unitary states. Some examples
on this matter are below:

An appeal was made from Turkey to the ECHR in which a citi-
zen who wanted to change his name and use letters such as q, w and
x letters that are not used in the Turkish language, appealed to the
court after exhausting domestic remedies. The ECHR overruled the

claim.

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