Avrupa Birliği?nin Avrupa İnsan Hakları Sözleşmesi?ne taraf olmasının hukuki ve yargısal etkileri

Even though accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR-Convention) has been on the agenda of the European Union (EU) since the 1970?s; concrete steps to this end has recently been taken in 2010, between the EU and the Council of Europe, and the Draft Accession Agreement was finalized in July 2011. Taking into consideration this Draft text and the related legislative instruments adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe and the EU; this thesis will try to question whether the Union?s accession to the ECHR will have implications for the legal status and the judicial protection of fundamental rights at the EU level. Accordingly, the research will try to explain the present state of affairs for fundamental rights protection at both the EU and the ECHR level and then will try to analyze whether the accession will have implications for legal status and judicial protection of fundamental rights at the EU level. Relying on the analysis made through the research, this work reaches to the conclusion that the EU?s accession to the Convention will not cause significant changes for the legal status and the judicial protection of fundamental rights at the EU level.