Religion – Weltanschauung – Recht [ RWR ]

The applicant is the Chief Rabbinate of the Jewish Community in İzmir. At the relevant time it was a religious institution whose members were Turkish citizens of the Jewish faith. On 13 December 2011 it acquired the status of foundation and took the name “Foundation of the Jewish Community of İzmir”. The case concerns judicial proceedings following which the foundation was denied permission to register property, namely a plot of land on which was erected a former synagogue, its claim being that the land had belonged to it for a long time. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »