Article 12 - Right to marry

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Nurcan Bayraktar v. Türkiye, no. 27094/20

27/06/23

Refusal to exempt the applicant, without her undergoing a medical examination to prove that she was not pregnant, from the 300-day waiting period imposed on divorced women wishing to remarry.
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