European Human Rights Court Says Religion on Identity Cards Violates ECHR

Religion Clause Blog: “In Sinan Isik v. Turkey [in French], (Eur. Ct. Hum. Rts., Feb. 2, 2010), the European Court of Human Rights, by a vote of 6-1, upheld a complaint by petitioner that the government of Turkey refused to replace ‘Islam’ on his identity card with “Alevi.”