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Individual applications to the Constitutional Court are of paramount importance as they form the basis, foundation, and groundwork for applications to the ECtHR. This is because the ECtHR expects applicants to first exhaust remedies before the Constitutional Court in almost all matters. A well-prepared application may be resolved at the Constitutional Court level without the need to proceed to the ECtHR, thereby saving a significant amount of time.
If an application is later brought before the ECtHR, any complaint that was not raised before the domestic courts, particularly the Constitutional Court, will not be heard by the ECtHR due to its procedural requirements. For this reason, and especially in terms of resolving cases at the Constitutional Court level to save time and only applying to the ECtHR when necessary, individual applications to the Constitutional Court are of crucial importance.
For an example of this principle, you may refer to the case of Encü and Others v. Turkey, known publicly as the Roboski case, which was deemed inadmissible by the ECtHR.