International law and national sovereignty

By the virtue of their membership of these bodies, states automatically surrender some degree of their external sovereignty to the organization which goes further, in the long run, to affect their internal sovereignty.
In international law, sovereignty means that a government possesses full control over affairs within a territorial or geographical area or limit.

national governments but also by regional and international organizations. Thus, the theory of divided sovereignty, first developed in federal states, began

A fundamental principle of international law is that a state can generally control all activities within territory over which it has sovereignty. Outside of this territory, a state is generally restricted to controlling activities of its citizens and vessels or planes registered in its territory.

Should sovereign states benefit from international rule of law?

Waldron identifies two main mistakes in the conventional view that sovereign states should be equated with individuals in their relation to the law, and hence ought to benefit from the international rule of law in exactly the same way as individuals benefit from the domestic rule of law

Public holiday in Turkey

National Sovereignty and Children's Day is a public holiday in Turkey commemorating the foundation of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, on 23 April 1920.
It is also observed by Northern Cyprus.

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