Author known to blog editor Turkey has remained to continue to be governed under state of emergency. A new emergency decree law was recently issued. The recent one provides a commission to examine the proceedings, instituted under the former ones. Beforehand, Erdoğan had suppressed the criticism of “ the innocent ones are also suffering with the guilty”, coming from the community, saying he wouldn’t think of it. Even, they obtained fetwa (an opinion on a matter involving islamic religious law) from Hayrettin Karaman, expert on fıqh ( Muslim canonical jurisprudence). The remedies are not effective and accessible for the ordinary citizens, but not for those who have an acquaintance from…

Author: Ahmet TAKANA Police officer Bilal Konakci, year was 2009. He was one of the 18 specialists -bomb disposal experts- who worked in Izmir. Bilal Konakci, the only bomb disposal expert in the northern part of İzmir, was called to duty, when a citizen saw a suspicious package in front of Aliağa High School on the day the calendar pages showed February 5th. The hero police officer decided that the package should be destroyed in an enclosed area after a review. Police officer Konakci heard some voices while preparing to dismantle the bomb that brought the Aliaga Police Department. He saw that the bomb had become active, at that moment he…

The former deputy of CHP (main opposition party) and also lawyer, Hüseyin Aygün shared the particulars and the main goal of the recent emergency decree law no.685 issued by the ruling party (AKP) in his twitter account. Here is the share of Hüseyin Aygün: The emergency decree law no.685 has recently entered into force after being published in the official gazette on 23 January, 2017. The main peculiarity of the recent emergency decree law that renders it different from the preceding ones is that it provides a ‘State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission’ to examine the proceedings as regards the closure of the associations, foundations, federations, confederations, health& education institutions,…

Betrifft JUSTIZ Heft 128 – Dezember 2016 (1) Blogschokolade In vier Wellen wurden in der Türkei bislang 3658 Richterinnen und Staatsanwälte entlassen. Viele von ihnen waren oder sind inhaftiert, wie zuletzt der Präsident der Richtervereinigung YARSAV, Murat Arslan oder Aydin Sefa Akay, ein Immunität genießender UN-Richter. Zeitungen in deutscher Sprache berichten wenig über die aktuellen Entwicklungen, da bilden blogs und soziale Netzwerke eine wichtige Informationsquelle. Am umfangreichsten berichtet der Luzerner Bundesrichter Thomas Stadelmann in seinem „ts_justice›s blog“, der auch auf twitter (@ts_justice) unterwegs ist. Das blog erschöpft sich nicht in eigenen Posts, sondern wird ergänzt durch Dokumentationen, journalistische Beiträge oppositioneller türkischer Journalisten und Aufsätzen der mit Betrifft JUSTIZ befreundeten Richterzeitung…

Das große Aufräumen des Staates unter Notstandsregeln Die Notverordnungen der türkischen Regierung enthalten massenhafte Verstöße gegen die Verfassung und Grundrechte Autorin Öykü Didem Aydın[1],[2],[3] I. Einführung Am 15.07.2016 fand in der Türkei ein Putschversuch statt, der zügig niedergeschlagen wurde. Am 20.07.2016 wurde für einen Zeitraum von drei Monaten ein verfassungsrechtlicher Notstand erklärt. Es ist noch offen, wie lange er dauern soll. Er wurde bereits um drei Monate verlängert. So merkwürdig es auch aussehen mag, die Regierung will den Plan für die Verfassungsänderung[4] zur Einführung des Präsidialregierungssystems gerade während des Notstands vorantreiben, was unter normalen Umständen auf heftige Opposition durch die Hälfte der Bevölkerung stoßen würde. Vorausgeschickt: Jeder gewalttätige Versuch einer…

PUNISHING AND SILENCING THE OPPOSITION IN THE TURKISH JUDICIARY THROUGH DISMISSALS, PROSECUTIONS AND ARRESTS Author: N.N. (known to the blog-editor, kept confidential for security reasons) Following the attempted coup of July 2016, a wave of prosecutions started as part of the overall purging mission initiated by the government seemingly as a response to the failed coup. It has quickly turned out that most of the prosecutions have nothing to do with the attempted coup but on the basis of some abstract allegations of membership, relationship or affiliation to a group (the government claims it to be a ‘terrorist’ group). The figures of dismissals, closures, seizures, prosecutions, arrests, bans etc. have greatly…

Author: José Igreja Matos, President of European Association of Judges (EAJ) Date: Jan 14, 2017   This is moral blindness – self-chosen, self-imposed, or fatalistically accepted – in an epoch that more than anything needs quickness and acuteness of apprehension and feeling. In order that we regain our perceptiveness in dark times, it is necessary to give back dignity as well as the idea of the essential unfathomability of human beings (…) – Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis, Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. An European Assessment – a manifest disrespect for the independence of judiciary in Turkey Indisputably, the current situation in Turkey is characterized by…

Author: known by blog editor, kept secret for security reasons Pro-Erdogan Prosecutor gave a dismissal of charges decision about a torture complaint without having investigation, 5 JANUARY 2017, TRABZON, TURKEY Someone complained to the prosecutor about being tortured. The following are the torture and ill-treatment that was done to complainant: “They interrogated me three times and told me I used “bylock” [app]. The police officer punched me and said I’ll f.. you, I’ll harass you with a truncheon.” “We’ll strip your wife, Do you want a bastard in your wifes womb, you are gonna write the names we gave you [in your statement] ” they told me. The prosecutor decided…

Author: N.N., Turkey (*)   1. Because of some criminal investigation against high profile government and intelligence agencies such as 17-25 December 2013 Corruption Cases, MIT Truck to ISIS cases,  President Erdogan see the judiciary as a serious threat to reach his personal, and political aim rooted Political Islamist Ideas backed 1990s. Therefore, he launched a linch campaign to judges, who had charged with these cases. 2. Following corruption allegations implicating government ministers and Erdoğan’s own family in December 2013, the government in 2014 embarked on dramatic moves to demote and discharge the  judiciary. Although, High Council of Judges and Prosecutors is a constitutional institution, the ruling party passed a…