“For the lifting of Turkey’s two-year state of emergency to have been anything more than a cosmetic exercise, it needed to be accompanied…
The independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the Turkish judiciary have been in a dramatic decline especially since the coup attempt in July 2016…
Following the constitutional amendment in 2017, the very first presidential and parliamentary election was held on 24 June 2018 by means of a…
Hakan Aydin* & Leighann Spencer
[dropcap size=big]O[/dropcap]n 15th of July 2016, just five hours after the controversial coup attempt began in Turkey – a…
PPJ- 1 March 2018
Platform for Peace and Justice has updated its report entitled "Non-Independence and Non-Impartiality of the Turkish Judiciary" which was…
Rebecca Harms together with other Members of the European Parliament and of the EP-Turkey Forum has issued a statement concerning the refusal of…
By MELIS TON
Arrest warrants were issued for 2,745 judges and prosecutors just one day after the 15th of July controlled coup attempt,…
Access to Justice as a Key Element of the Rule of Law in Turkey
Lack of Access to Justice in Turkey
Venice Commission's Rule of…
By PPJ
PACE has pointed to “serious problems” with the rule of law in many Council of Europe member states – singling out…
By LEVENT YILDIRIM
Introduction
More than 100.000 public officials have been dismissed from their profession unlawfully, many taken into custody and arrested…
Three brave women made an interview with Von Frank Nordhausen from a German News Paper. The interview was in German. Justice House Platform for Turkey translated…
Hakan Canduran, President of Ankara Bar Association, in his interview to Cumhuriyet daily, stated that Turkey is turning into fascism step by step,…
By TOLGA KUNTER
The article titled “Turkey's Politicised Judiciary”[1] gives nearly all the details about how Turkish judiciary has been made first de…
By MELIS TON
According to Article 88/1 of the Law on Judges and Prosecutors No. 2802, “Except for offences caught red handed (in…
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 …
A judge who has been jailed after he was dismissed unlawfully passed away just a couple of days after he was released from…
Rıza Türmen, the former judge of the ECHR and deputy of CHP, main opposition party, wrote an article. Referring the case-laws of the ECHR concerning the unlawful arrests, he points out that unless the Constitutional Court concludes the individual applications in mostly 1 year, the persons concerned will be able to lodge their applications with…
There is no shortage of examples about how the Turkish government scapegoats innocent people for the problems it has created in an effort to deflect criticism and avoid accountability in the governance of the country. Instead of owning up to the mess and claiming responsibility for the failures under their watch, the Islamist rulers, led…