Judge Gülsüm COŞAR was dismissed by the HSYK (Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors) on 31.8.2016 based on the provisions of the state of emergency decree-laws. Judge Gülsüm COŞAR's husband, who was a prosecutor, was also arrested after his...
Judge Mehmet Dölen, who was dismissed and kept in prison for 26 months, passed away of covid-19 on 1st June 2021.
Judge Dölen was dismissed on political charges on the pretext of the July 15 coup attempt and deprived of...
Judge Güngör was dismissed on political charges on the pretext of the July 15 coup attempt and deprived of his freedom for 3 years.
When he was examined upon his illness after his release, he learned that he had stage...
Former judge Yavuz Aydın wrote an article for Ahval English on the turkish judges and lawyers who have either passed away or whose life in many ways have been ruined during Erdogan's post- July 15 era in Turkey.
Here is...
Erdal Tercan, expelled Constitutional Court member, was arrested in July 2016. He has been in prison so far. He is infected with Covid-19 in prison and virus spreads into his lung.
Although he is seriously ill and has been at...
A judge couple fleeing Turkey through Aegen Sea lost their two children in a boat accident on the coast of Chios Island on 27 September 2019.
The boat which was carrying 19 asylum seekers, including judges, academics, teachers and their...
Purge victim female judge Lale Yıldız died from a heart attack after reinstated. She was firstly dismissed over ByLock usage and reinstated after it was understood that she was not user of it. "Pro-Ataturk judge Lale Yildiz of Bakırköy District,...
Former Prosecutor Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel's wife Firdevs Pekgüzel died in a traffic accident in Ankara on her way to visit her husband in prison, HDP lawmaker and human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu tweeted on 6 May 2019.
Mehmet Ali...
In Turkey, while the rights of the judges under arrest such as members of the Court of Cassation, the Council of state, and the Constitutional Court were being violated with full throttle, news of the other drama came. Turkey's...
Dismissed woman judge Sevda Guven and her husband, dismissed police chief Zeki Guven were rounded up by the police on 22 May 2018. They were arrested over the pretext of terrorism charges on 28 May 2018.
It is reported that,...
