This book enquires into the notion of compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights and ways to assess it. it is concemed specifically with testing the ability of the Turkish domestic system to abide by the right to freedom of expression under the Convention.

The writer, in this context, looks at one specific aspect of the Convention to define the compatibility, which is the collective will to create a common legal space (community) in order to define and observe contracting states' primary obligations. in this respect she explains the compatibility as an ability to participate successfully in this wider legal community to define the treaty obligations and to embrace the outcome as common standards.

In the light of this specific object and purpose of the Convention, the writer establishes conditions of compatibility with the ECHR as successfiıl interaction between the member states and the Convention Organs, and the successfiıl protection of the interconnection between basic rights and democracy at national and supranational levels. in this respect she argues for measuring the Turkish parties' ability to be compatible with the Convention by looking at official and institutional channels of interaction with the wider legal community of the Convention and three specific aspects of the law; namely not to adopt negative ideological tenets in drawing the scope of the right to freedom of expression, to apply limitations rationally and proportionally in balancing conflicting interests with free speech, and to prevent the abuse of the right to freedom of expression. Finally the writer applies these criteria to the Convention law and to the Turkish domestic system. She then places her results in a t shovving the level that the Turkish party retains in respect of her compatibility with the right to freedom of expression under the Echr; Between Semı–Compatıbılıty And Compatibility.