Serap Yazıcı (born 1963 in

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, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and academic of

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. She was a member of a committee tasked with drafting a proposal for the new

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. She was elected to the

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from

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in the

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. Although she was member of the Future Party, she was elected from the

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list. However, She resigned from the Future Party on February 22, 2025. She joined the AKP on February 23, 2025.

Early years

At the age of thirteen, she lost her eyesight in a car accident with her family, at which her mother was killed. She was educated in the Faculty of Law at Ankara University, and graduated earning a

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in 1984. In 1995, Yazıcı completed her postgraduate studies at the same university, and obtained the title

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Career

In 1998, Yazıcı was appointed professor of Constitutional Law in the

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, where she served until 2012. She used to be a faculty member at Istanbul Şehir University. She was a member of the six-person committee tasked by the then prime minister

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with drafting a proposal for the new

. She has been critical of the constitution drafted after the

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, saying "In the Turkish judicial system, the number of rulings that were based on the principle of objectivity would most likely be in the minority".

References

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