Former judge candidate with 6-month-old baby sent to prison in defiance of legal provisions

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Former judge candidate with 6-month-old baby sent to prison in defiance of legal provisions

Esra Çiçeklidağ, a former judge candidate dismissed from her job by a government decree, was arrested on November 10, 2021 in violation of a Turkish law that requires the postponement of the execution of prison sentences for women who are pregnant or have given birth within the last year and a half.

Çiçeklidağ’s case was brought to light by human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Thursday. Gergerlioğlu said in a tweet that Çiçeklidağ was sent to Gebze Prison with her 6-month-old baby and 4-year-old son.

“Her husband [a former district governor] was sent to prison the same day after his sentence was upheld [by an appeals court],” Gergerlioğlu said.

Purge victim prosecutor and his wife drowned in the Aegean Sea while trying to flee abroad from Erdogan Regime on 3. December 2021

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Purge victim prosecutor and his wife drowned in the Aegean Sea while trying to flee abroad from Erdogan Regime on 3. December 2021

Purge-victim prosecutor İbrahim Gündüz and his wife Nurdan Gündüz, purge-victim clerk, drowned in the Aegean Sea while trying to flee abroad from Erdogan Regime.

İbrahim Gündüz was dismissed and arrested after controversial coup attempt in Turkey, July 2016. He was released after serving 15 months in prison on condition of travel ban and judicial control. He awaited the appeal phase of his conviction (6 years 10 months). He was forced to flee abroad to avoid going back to prison.

Greek media shared the incident as follows:

“Two dead and three rescued are the tragic result of the overturning of an inflatable speedboat carrying five refugees and migrants in the sea area northeast of Kos. 

According to the first information from the Headquarters of the Coast Guard, the incident took place late on Thursday night.

 A rescue operation was carried out by the Coast Guard, during which 3 men were rescued and a man and a woman were pulled out of the sea without their senses. 

Both were taken to a hospital in Kos where they were pronounced dead. The sea area where the incident took place had high waves.”

Former Supreme Court member Uğur: I have been treated as a captive in prison for 9 months, I have no life security.

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Former Supreme Court member Uğur: I have been treated as a captive in prison for 9 months, I have no life security.

Former Supreme Court member Hüsamettin Uğur said that in prison he is in fear of his life. He had previously been also subjected to torture, beatings and ill-treatment in Keskin Prison. For this reason, he was transferred to Afyonkarahisar Prison. According to the information obtained, the ill treatment against Uğur continues here as well. None of his petitions regarding torture and ill treatment has been processed.

His daughter Nalan Dilara Uğur, a lawyer, shared what his father said in his last phone call on his social media account. Hüseyin Uğur told that in the last raid on his ward about 8-10 guards suddenly entered the cell and scattered all their belongings under the pretext of ‘searching’. This is not enough, a report is taken about Hüsamettin Uğur on the charge of “obstructing the officer”. Uğur expressed, “ I have been treated as a captive in prison for 9 months. I experienced in 3 months here, what I had experienced in 4.5 years in Keskin. I am no longer safe. This will continue, they’ve already said! My petitions are not answered. My hands get calluses from writing petition.”

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https://www.tr724.com

ENDLESS PURGE | Council of Judges and Prosecutors suspends more 14 judges and prosecutors on 30 Oktober 2021 in Turkey. Hundreds of investigations are ongoing.

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ENDLESS PURGE | Council of Judges and Prosecutors suspends more 14 judges and prosecutors on 30 Oktober 2021 in Turkey. Hundreds of investigations are ongoing.

The Council of Judges and Prosecutors discussed and concluded the  investigations against the 186 judges and prosecutors last week. 14 judges and prosecutors were suspended over the pretext of terrorism and Gulen-links.

Purge-victim judge Abdünnasır Aslan died of Covid-19 on 7 October 2021 after serving 2 years in prison and conditional release

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Purge-victim judge Abdünnasır Aslan died of Covid-19 on 7 October 2021 after serving 2 years in prison and conditional release

Abdünnasır Aslan, father of three, dismissed judge with a state of emergency  decree, passed away on the morning of 7 October in Mardin due to complications from Covid-19.

He was sentenced to 7 years 6 months in prison over the pretext of terrorism and he had spent some 2 years in a prison. He was released on the condition of judicial control until the end of appeal process.

He was trying to livestock in his village.  The diseases he contracted from the cold prison wards had greatly lowered his immunity.

He left this world at the age of 36 with disappointments.

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The tombstone of former woman judge Gülsüm Coşar, who died in exile at the age of 31, explains what millions went through due to the persecution of the State of Emergency: “Our heart is like a bird forced to migrate before learning to fly”

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The tombstone of former woman judge Gülsüm Coşar, who died in exile at the age of 31, explains what millions went through due to the persecution of the State of Emergency: “Our heart is like a bird forced to migrate before learning to fly”

Written on the tombstone of former judge Gülsüm Coşar, who was dismissed by emergency decree-law, explains what millions went through due to the persecution of the State of Emergency: “Our heart is like a bird forced to migrate before learning to fly”

All that left was her 5-year-old son who asked, “Why did you put my mother in that box?”

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 dismissal on the same date. He was sentenced to 9 years and 2 months in prison based on political and subsequently established criteria and is still in prison.

Judge Gülsüm COŞAR was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison for similar reasons. Judge Gülsüm COŞAR had to flee abroad, taking her 5-year-old son with, after her arrest came to the fore. She died of heart-related causes in Germany at the age of 31. She left behind a 5-year-old son and a husband, purge-victim prosecutor, in prison.

Political persecution continues in Turkey, let the world hear it!

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Mahmut Kış, former member of the Court of Cassation, who was dismissed and arrested on the pretext of the July 15 coup attempt, died of a heart attack

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Mahmut Kış, former member of the Court of Cassation, who was dismissed and arrested on the pretext of the July 15 coup attempt, died of a heart attack

Mahmut Kış, a member of the Court of Cassation, was dismissed and arrested after July 15 coup attempt and sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison for political reasons.

Mahmut Kış, who was deprived of his profession and freedom, died of a heart attack on 1st September 2021.

Purge-victim woman judge Gülsüm COŞAR died of heart-related causes at the age of 31 on 1st September 2021. She left behind a 5-year-old son and a husband, former prosecutor, in prison.

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Purge-victim woman judge Gülsüm COŞAR died of heart-related causes at the age of 31 on 1st September 2021. She left behind a 5-year-old son and a husband, former prosecutor, in prison.

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 dismissal on the same date. He was sentenced to 9 years and 2 months in prison based on political and subsequently established criteria and is still in prison.

Judge Gülsüm COŞAR was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison for similar reasons. Judge Gülsüm COŞAR had to flee abroad, taking her 5-year-old son with, after her arrest came to the fore. She died of heart-related causes in Germany at the age of 31. She left behind a 5-year-old son and a husband, purge-victim prosecutor, in prison.

ECtHR ruled that Turkey violated the rights of arrested judge Erdal Tercan, former member of Constitutional Court

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ECtHR ruled that Turkey violated the rights of arrested judge Erdal Tercan, former member of Constitutional Court

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the right to liberty and security as well as the right to respect for private and family life and for one’s home of Erdal Tercan, a former judge at the country’s Constitutional Court who was jailed immediately after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

The court ordered Turkey to pay the applicant 20,000 euros in non-pecuniary damages.

Tercan was detained on July 16, 2016, a day after the failed coup. On the same day, the police conducted a search of his home and seized computers and other IT equipment. He was arrested by an Ankara court four days later.

The Ninth Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Appeals, acting as a court of first instance, sentenced Tercan to 10 years, seven months and 15 days on April 4, 2019.

In 2017 Tercan lodged two individual applications with the Constitutional Court. However, the high court in April 2018 rejected Tercan’s complaints about his detention, the lack of plausible reasons for it, the infringement of his right to be presumed innocent and the lack of independence and impartiality of the judges who ordered the custody measure.

The ECtHR found that remanding him in custody, in conditions that violated the procedural safeguards afforded to members of the Constitutional Court, had not been lawful.

The suspicions against Tercan at the time of his arrest had not met the requisite minimum level of plausibility, the Strasbourg court said.

The court took the view that there had been no relevant or sufficient grounds to justify keeping Tercan in pre-trial detention for more than two years and eight months.

According to the ECtHR, there had been interference with Tercan’s right to respect for his home, and the search of his home had been carried out without the plenary Constitutional Court having taken a decision on the measure.

The ECtHR previously ruled (Alparslan Altan v. Turkey, no. 12778/17) that Turkey had violated the rights to liberty and security of Alparslan Altan, another former judge of the Turkish Constitutional Court who was also jailed immediately after the coup attempt.

Source: https://www.turkishminute.com

Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 17-26 years prison sentences for former prosecutors in MİT trucks case

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Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals upholds 17-26 years prison sentences for former prosecutors in MİT trucks case

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the lengthy jail sentences handed down to 18 defendants for conducting a 2014 investigation into trucks operated by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) that were allegedly carrying arms to Syria.

Among the defendants were former chief prosecutors Süleyman Bağrıyanık, prosecutors Ahmet Karaca, Aziz Takçı and Özcan Şişman, who were arrested in 2015 and in 2019 were handed down sentences of 22 years, six months; 18 years, nine months; 26 years; and 17 years, three months, respectively, on charges that include obtaining and disclosing secret documents and terrorism.

The court also upheld the 20 and 20,5-year prison sentences given to former gendarmerie brigadier general Hamza Celepoğlu and former colonel Özkan Çokay, respectively, both of whom were dismissed from the gendarmerie.

In May the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) requested a statement from Turkey regarding the case of Takçı, Bağrıyanık, Karaca and Şişman. The jailed prosecutors argue that they are being kept behind bars solely for doing their job, the rights court noted, adding that two of the prosecutors accuse Turkey’s Constitutional Court of failing to consider their individual applications in a reasonable period of time.

In January 2014 Adana prosecutors ordered gendarmes to conduct a search of a truck on its way to the Syrian border after receiving an anonymous tip. Trucks belonging to MİT that were allegedly carrying weapons to jihadists in Syria were caught near the border, sparking a political firestorm in Turkey about the role of the Turkish spy agency in arming rebel factions in Syria. Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and then-Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strongly denied the claims, saying the trucks were carrying humanitarian aid to Turkmens in northern Syria.

Sedat Peker, a Turkish crime boss who has been making scandalous allegations about the relationship between state actors and the mafia in a YouTube video series since early May, claimed that SADAT International Defense Consultancy, a paramilitary organization established by former Erdoğan aide Adnan Tanrıverdi, sent weapons to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria in 2015.

Following the mafia boss’s revelation, Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist who along with fellow journalist Erdem Gül stood trial for reporting in May 2015 on the MİT trucks that allegedly carried weapons to jihadist groups in Syria and was sentenced to 27 years on various charges including espionage, made a statement saying that Peker’s claims confirmed the authenticity of his report, which was published in the Cumhuriyet daily.

Dündar, who has been living in Germany since he fled Turkey in 2016, said the prosecutors and military officers who were prosecuted and given lengthy jail sentences for stopping the MİT trucks, as well as the journalists who reported on these trucks like him, were paying a price for uncovering the truth behind the MİT trucks.

Sources:
1- https://www.turkishminute.com
2- https://www.freejudges.eu

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