🇹🇷 Turkey → 🇷🇴 Romania

The case concerned an extradition request submitted by Romania against a Syrian national convicted of fraud offences and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by Romanian courts.Romanian authorities requested extradition for enforcement of the final sentence pursuant to the European Convention on Extradition.The requested person was apprehended in Kilis after entering Türkiye and was temporarily detained pending extradition proceedings.The Kilis Heavy Penal Court found the extradition request admissible under Article 18 of the former Turkish Criminal Code and the European Convention on Extradition.The defence appealed.The Turkish Court of Cassation upheld the extradition admissibility decision.Before examining the concrete case, the Court provided a general overview of Turkish extradition law, emphasizing:- the constitutional basis of extradition;- the interaction between domestic and international extradition norms;- the positive and negative conditions governing extradition requests.The Court held that:- the requested person was not a Turkish citizen;- a final foreign conviction existed;- the offence constituted an extraditable offence;- none of the refusal grounds under Turkish law applied;- and the extradition request complied with treaty obligations under the European Convention on Extradition.The extradition admissibility judgment was therefore affirmed.