The Petition Drafting and Legal Writing Workshop within the Framework of YUKK and IYUK

Participant Profile and Target Audience

• Lawyers actively practicing in migration law who wish to sharpen their strategic litigation skills and present systematic arguments,
• Trainee Lawyers aiming to acquire procedural competence in structuring administrative lawsuits, analyzing complex cases, and managing procedural risks,
• Academics evaluating judicial precedents and the procedural conflicts of norms between foreigners law and administrative law from a practical dimension,
• Law School Graduates seeking to establish a technical infrastructure in administrative justice to master the architecture of petition drafting post-graduation.

Format, Quota, and Admission Process

• Interactive In-Person Format: The program is conducted fully in person to facilitate real-time strategy formulation, hands-on petition drafting exercises, and dynamic case analyses.
• Strictly Limited Quota: To maximize interaction and efficiency, admission is highly selective. Registered candidates will be evaluated via an interview regarding their technical readiness for the program.

Week 1: Normative Framework and Petition Architecture

Session 1 (Tuesday, July 14 - 19:30-22:00): Alignment of YUKK and İYUK, Statutory Timeframes, and Hierarchy of Norms

• Special Law vs. General Law: How İYUK procedural rules govern when YUKK remains silent.
• Mapping statutory limitation periods: Resolving the friction between the general 60-day period and exceptional 7, 15, and 30-day periods under YUKK.
• Hierarchy of norms: Integrating international conventions (Geneva, ECHR), circulars, and directives into petitions to robustly establish the "cause" element of administrative acts.

Session 2 (Thursday, July 16 - 19:30-22:00): Anatomy of an Ideal Petition under İYUK Art. 3 and 5

• Mitigating petition rejection (İYUK Art. 15) risks: Strategic errors in combining disconnected acts, improper group petitions, or failure to exhaust mandatory administrative recourse.
• Jurisdiction, Venue, and Proper Defendant (Husumet) Structuring in complex migration disputes.
• Converting the 5 constitutional elements of an administrative act (Competence, Form, Cause, Object, Purpose) into persuasive claims of unlawfulness.

Week 2: Thematic Disputes and Applied Strategy

Session 3 (Tuesday, July 21 - 19:30-22:00): Judicial Review of Administrative Sanctions and Measures

• Statutory Exceptions in Stay of Execution: Deviating from İYUK Art. 27, how annulment lawsuits filed under YUKK Art. 53/3 trigger an automatic stay of execution.
• Dual Jurisdictions and Procedural Synchronization: Coordinating the objection process against "Administrative Detention" in the Criminal Judgeship of Peace with the simultaneous "Deportation" annulment lawsuit in administrative courts.
• Ex Officio Investigation and the Production of Evidence (İYUK Art. 20): Managing the burden of proof, strategic framing of discovery requests, and maintaining "equality of arms" when challenging confidential administrative records (restriction/tahdit codes).

Session 4 (Thursday, July 23 - 19:30-22:00): Full Remedy Actions (Tazminat) and Practicum

• Litigating material and moral damages resulting from unlawful migration administration acts (Fault of service vs. Strict liability).
• Practicum: Drafting a lawsuit petition from scratch based on an anonymized real-world case from the UMHD Hotline, followed by a collaborative cross-analysis.

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