Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/20/2009

Subject: The Court has stated that the refusal to recognize, in favor of the claimant, the social rights benefit of the deceased partner, whom he had married with religious ceremony, was not a violation to the right to private and family life

Parties: Şerife Yiğit c/ Turchia

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Solidarity - Art. 34 Social security - Social benefits