Serap Yazıcı is a Turkish academic. She is a professor of Constitutional Law

Constitutional law

Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....

 in the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University

Istanbul Bilgi University

Istanbul Bilgi University is a private, non-profit university in Istanbul, Turkey. It was actually established in 1994 under the name ISIS , but its name was changed to Istanbul Bilgi University with the foundation of the school on June 7, 1996...

. She became blind by an accident in her childhood. Professor Yazıcı is a member of the six-person committee tasked by the prime minister

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara...

 with drafting a proposal for the new constitution of Turkey

Constitution of Turkey

This article relates to a current event. See also the Turkish constitutional referendum, 2010The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey is Turkey's fundamental law. It establishes the organization of the government and sets out the principles and rules of the state's conduct along with its...

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Biography

She has been critical of the constitution drafted after a Sept 12, 1980 military coup, saying "In the Turkish judicial system, the number of rulings that were based on the principle of objectivity would most likely be in the minority."