Judicial body removes judges upon pressure from gov’t
In line with the government's wishes, Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) investigators on Monday ruled for the dismissal of the judges who handed down a ruling for the release of Samanyolu...
View ArticleBar associations criticize noncompliance of public prosecutors with court...
Bar associations have spoken out against the noncompliance of public prosecutors with a court order for the release of Samanyolu Broadcasting Group CEO Hidayet Karaca and scores of police officers who...
View ArticleJudges who ordered release of journalist stand by their decisions
In open defiance against political pressure and government interference, Turkish courts in Istanbul stood by their earlier rulings that a detained journalist and anti-corruption investigators must be...
View ArticleEP Greens co-president: Judiciary in Turkey a gov’t instrument
Co-President of the Greens Group in the European Parliament (EP) Rebecca Harms, commenting on the Turkish authorities' refusal to release journalist Hidayet Karaca and dozens of imprisoned police...
View ArticleSpeaking of ’parallel structures’...
Cafer Solgun The İstanbul Public Prosecutor's Office has not complied with a court ruling to release Samanyolu Broadcasting General Manager Hidayet Karaca and 63 members of the police force. So yes,...
View ArticleYou’ve already humiliated yourselves, take some pity on Turkey!
Selçuk Gültaşlı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his men, caught red-handed, declared to the whole world that they had prepared the infrastructure for the successful veiling of the evidence of their crimes. In...
View ArticleProsecutors, judges, persecutors
Ekrem Dumanlı The judicial system was subjected to a major test in Turkey two days ago. The lawyers, after exhausting all options of appeal with the penal judges of peace, filed motions with a criminal...
View ArticleA judge steps outside the ‘waiting room’ to announce ‘emperor is naked’
Mümtazer Türköne Much as the infamous Dreyfus affair in France revealed so much about the French justice system, likewise the decision rendered by the İstanbul 32nd Criminal Court of First Instance...
View ArticleJustice and mafiacracy
Emre Uslu Last night, we witnessed the pathetic situation of Turkey's justice system. Let me make a brief explanation for the uninitiated. First of all, the criminal courts of peace, which President...
View ArticleTurkey is no longer a democracy
Abdullah Bozkurt The open defiance of Turkey's Islamist rulers and their partisan hacks in the judiciary of the landmark court judgment that ordered the release of a wrongfully jailed senior journalist...
View ArticleReacting to Karaca case, EU reminds Turkey of its commitments
The European Union has reacted to the refusal to release Samanyolu Broadcasting Group's Chairman Hidayet Karaca and a group of police officers, despite a court decision. Answering a question by Today's...
View ArticleTurkish Cultural Center Holds Annual Friendship Dinner
The Turkish Cultural Center Queens held its 12th annual friendship dinner and award ceremony at Flushing Town Hall last week. In the words of Turkish Cultural Center representatives, the dinner and...
View ArticleWorld Association of Newspapers and News Publishers: Karaca must be released
The secretary-general of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the world's largest journalistic body, has called on the Turkish authorities to release Samanyolu...
View ArticleJustice pending!
Erhan Başyurt Political interventions to the judiciary are creating chaos which is getting worse by the day. In the process leading up to December 25, they were instructing the police “not to execute...
View ArticleWhole country turns into a prison
Orhan Kemal Cengiz A huge discussion currently taking place in Turkey over law and procedure, after suspects were not released from prison in spite of a court order, may seem quite complex but it is...
View ArticleBank Asya calls for return of management control of shares
Bank Asya, Turkey's largest Islamic lender, announced on Tuesday that it has sent documents regarding 94 percent of all shareholders to the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK), suggesting...
View ArticleTurkish school shelters locals in earthquake-hit Nepal
The Meridian International School in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, founded by Turkish businessmen and educators in 2002, has opened up its premises to locals after the city was hit by a powerful...
View ArticleWhy insist on detention?
Erhan Başyurt The court opinion on the decision to release Samanyolu Group Chairman Hidayet Karaca and the 62 police officers is quite clear. First, there is the following declaration: “The examined...
View ArticleFreedom House ranks Turkey ’Not Free,’ cites deteriorating media freedom
The Washington-based rights watchdog Freedom House has ranked Turkey among the "Not Free" countries in its latest press freedom report, noting that Turkey's media environment deteriorated further as...
View ArticleTargeting Hizmet Erdoğan says ‘obey state or perish’
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signaled that radical steps will be taken against the “parallel structure,” a defamatory term used by Erdoğan to refer to the faith-based Gülen movement also known as...
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