Bakır Çağlar was a Turkish

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 jurist

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, lawyer

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 and professor of constitutional law

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 at Istanbul University

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 Faculty of Political Sciences. He was defense lawyer of Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights

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 for seven years.

Bakır Çağlar graduated from St. Joseph High School for Boys

St. Joseph High School (Istanbul)

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. After that, he was admitted to Istanbul University Faculty of Law and received his LL.B. degree. He earned Doctor of Law

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 degrees from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

He died on 25 July 2011 in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

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