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.
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Former judge Yavuz Aydın wrote an article for Ahval English on recent amnesty bill in Turkey. Aydın highlights the ineffectiveness of the application of Main Opposition Party (CHP) before the Constitutional Court and addresses other problematic regulations in the...
On 15th of July 2016, just five hours after the controversial coup attempt began in Turkey – a time when the responsible could not possibly be determined – the Prosecutor of Ankara appeared on NTV channel to declare that...
Ufuk Yeşil PhD*
MATERIAL TRUTH
The main purpose of criminal proceedings is to establish "material truth". The material truth is the reality that is seen, heard, touched, in short, whose material existence is known and determined through the five senses. Actually,...
Ufuk Yeşil, PhD*
It is regulated in article 134 of the CCP the procedure of search and seizure on/ofcomputers, computer programs and databases. According to the first paragraph of the article, on condition of certain conditionsemerging, a SEARCH could be...
Lawyer Levent Mazılıgüney (Translated by Freejudges)
The Republic of Turkey as a respected member of the international community authorized a large number of international courts or mechanisms, in particular, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about human rights and...
Two weeks ago, board member of dissolved YARSAV and former Judge Murat DURMAZ from his personal social media account shared the news that the application made by Turkey’s Union of Judges (The Union in Turkish) to MEDEL with the...
Kutlan Menderes Elmas
Lawyer Levent Mazılıgüney has revealed a scandal following his research on the official website of the Turkish Constitutional Court. He found out that the court’s decision given in the case of Alparslan Altan, former member of the...
Muharrem Özkaya, the brother of Ali Özkaya who is AKP MP for Afyon and Erdogan's lawyer was appointed as a member of HS(Y)K (High Council of Judges and Prosecutors) by Erdoğan in 2014.
Muharrem Özkaya was the Legal Advisor of...
The Constitutional Court have declared the individual application of a dismissed judge is inadmissible on the grounds that the application was manifestly ill-founded. The individual application had been lodged by a judge arrested over the allegation of having membership...
