Valid­ity of Child Mar­riages of Syr­i­ans Under Tem­por­ary Pro­tec­tion in Com­par­at­ive and Turk­ish Law

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

The art­icle ad­dresses the legal as­pects of child mar­riages con­trac­ted by Syr­i­ans under tem­por­ary pro­tec­tion in Turkey. It ex­am­ines, through Turk­ish private in­ter­na­tion­al law and com­par­at­ive law, how the law gov­ern­ing valid­ity is to be de­term­ined for mar­riages con­cluded before or after ar­rival in Turkey, with par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to per­son­al status, the public policy ex­cep­tion, the best in­terests of the child and the Art­icle 8 ECHR con­text.