Administrative court decision: concrete norm referral to the Constitutional Court

Istanbul 9th Administrative Court referred the Municipalities Law rule underpinning the trustee appointment to the Constitutional Court because it considered the rule unconstitutional.

Outcome: The constitutionality of the underlying rule was placed before the Constitutional Court through concrete norm review.

Legal effect: The referral opened the normative basis of the trustee measure to review but did not itself end the trustee appointment.