In Turkey, where the independence of the judiciary's completely disappeared in the past two years, almost 4500 judges and prosecutors were dismissed from the post of judge, thousands were arrested and some were exiled. The detained judges and prosecutors've been...
It is understood that the prosecutor Ahmet Biçer who was suspended by HSYK (the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors) at the night of July 15, 2016 and a detention order was issued for him just immediately after a...
  6 April 2018 Judge of 7th Penal Court of First Instance Abuzer Kara, mentioned as 'Alevi judge' in a tape record allegedly pertained to the Prime Minister of that time Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin, died of...
BREAKING | New video revealed on 27th December 2021 shows the last moments of purged judge Teoman Gökçe, former member of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors, who had been kept in solitary confinement cell until his death: https://youtu.be/iDGqRF2RFNo The...
04 April 2018 Associazione Nazionale Magistrati (ANM) adopted the statement following the news on the death in detention of Teoman Gökçe, former member of the HSYK. While expressing the Italian judges’ and prosecutors’ solidarity with his family and the Turkish colleagues...
  April 2, 2018. He has been kept under detention and isolation (one-inmate-room) in Sincan Prison since July 2016. He has not been tried yet and he died before first hearing scheduled May 2018, 22 months later than his detention. According to...
By Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu March 28, 2018 I was going to write on a different topic today, but I changed my mind with the latest news of the suicide. I have to write about the State of Emergency (SoE) and Emergency...
  Adalet Betül Çağdır, the wife of dismissed judge over the pretext of coup attempt, jumped to her death from the ninth floor of an apartment building in İstanbul on 26 March 2018. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, purged academic and human rights...
Member of Court of Cassation Mustafa Erdogan, arrested on coup related charges despite having a severe brain surgery and to be obliged to be held in hospital, was not set free till he had lost his consciousness despite many...
 After prosecutor SeyfettinYigit who allegedly committed suicide and died in prison, another Turkish Judge passed away after being purged. We mourn for our colleague Mehmet Tosun (29) who passed away on March 6th 2017. Like many other judges, he was...

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