view Uncategorised [OPINION] Sippenhaft (Family Punishment): A Nazi Practice Reinstated In Turkey 13/09/2017 By MELIS TON Sippenhaft is a deplorable act that belongs to the European Middle Ages. It refers to family’s liability when a person…
view Uncategorised [OPINION] Do You Think Ergenekon-Balyoz Were Unfair? 09/09/2017 By MELIS TON Ergenekon & Balyoz (Sledgehammer) Trials are the most controversial legal cases in Turkey’s recent past. On the one hand, there…
view Uncategorised [OPINION] Torture in Turkey Under the State of Emergency 09/08/2017 By MELIS TON In all contemporary legal systems which are based on the rule of law and respect for human rights, the principle…
view Uncategorised AKP Government’s Hostility towards Dissidents and Exploitation of Probation 29/07/2017 By MELIS TON With the Decree Law No. 671 enacted on 17.08.2016, a provisional article was added to the Law on the Execution…
view Uncategorised Forced Inmates of Turkey’s Prisons: Small Children 15/07/2017 By MELIS TON One of the latest researches on small children who have to live in prisons is conducted by Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi, an…
view Stop Racism [OPINION] Arrests of Judges and Prosecutors in Turkey and Violation of the Principle of in Flagrante Delicto? 23/06/2017 By MELIS TON According to Article 88/1 of the Law on Judges and Prosecutors No. 2802, “Except for offences caught red handed (in…
view Stop Racism Judiciary Quashed by “Civilian Coup” 20/06/2017 By MELIS TON The 19th paragraph of the Constitutional Court's decision dated 26/7/2017 and numbered 2016/49158 has stated that more than 4500 judges …