GENEVA (20 March 2018) – Routine extensions of the state of emergency in Turkey have led to profound human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people – from arbitrary deprivation of the right to work and to freedom...
15 July coup attempt in Turkey gave a golden opportunity to Erdogan, he publicly expressed it is “gift to him from God”. On July 16, the day after the attempted coup, the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HCJP)...
I-PROSECUTORS WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF 17 DEC 2013 CORRUPTION (MINISTERS & ZARRAB) CASE (1) 1-Zekeriya Öz: Deputy Chief Prosecutor, dismissed, arrest warrant is issued for him, now he is fugitive (2) 2-Celal Kara: Prosecutor, dismissed, arrest warrant is issued for...
15 July coup attempt in Turkey gave a golden opportunity to Erdogan, he publicly expressed it is “gift to him from God”. On July 16, the day after the attempted coup, the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HCJP)...
  1. INTRODUCTION  It is not too much to say that being a member of the judiciary is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. It is too difficult because one of the fundemental needs of a person is...
21 February 2018 Murat Arslan: "This trial is a revenge against YARSAV". Report about the first day of trial in the criminal proceedings against the chairman of YARSAV, the banned Turkish Association of Judges and Prosecutors. Murat Arslan began his career...
Report on judicial independence and impartiality in the Council of Europe member states in 2017 has just been published. The report has been prepared by the Bureau of the CCJE (Consultative Council of European Judges of the Council of...
  ... "A chilling climate of fear" is sweeping across Turkish society as the Turkish government continues to use the state of emergency to shrink the space for dissenting or alternative views. This briefing focuses in particular on the ways in which...
With the decision published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance in the Official Gazette on December 24, 2021, it was decided to freeze the assets of 771 real and legal persons, on the grounds that there were reasonable...
17 April 2018 Since the introduction of the state of emergency, over 150 000 people were taken into custody, 78 000 were arrested and over 110 000 civil servants were dismissed whilst, according to the authorities, some 40 000 were...

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