Your Excellency, President HasimKiliç, the President of the Turkish Constitutional Court and the Association of Asian Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions (AACCEI), your Excellencıes Presıdents and Chıef Justıces of Constıtutıonal Courts and Equıvalent Instıtutıons, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I greet you.
I am deeply honoured and humbled by the invitation extended by the AACCEI to the Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa (CCJA) to participate in the Second Congress of this august body whose noble objectives set out in Article 4 of the Statute are to promote: the protection of human rights, development of democracy, implementation of the rule of law, the independence of the Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Institutions, through the exchange of information and experiences related to constitutional justice. My presentation is based on theme 4 entitled “The Role of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts in the Protection of Constitutional Order”.