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58The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for example, has stated: “Under various sources of international law and under United Nations policy, amnesties are impermissible if they: (a) Prevent prosecution of individuals who may be criminally responsible for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity or gross violations of human rights, including gender-specific
60A recent exception is the debate on the revocation of the unamendable clauses in the context of writing a new constitution in the Constitution Reconciliation Committee, which was set up in 2011
105The text of the amendment was as follows: Article 1—The phrase ‘and in benefiting from all kinds of public services’ is added after the phrase ‘in all their proceedings’ in Paragraph four of Article 10 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey dated 7.11.1982 and with Law No. 2709. Article 2—The following paragraph is added after Paragraph six of Article 42 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey. ‘No one can be deprived of the right to higher education due to any