THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE COMMISSION ESTABLISHED UNDER THE EMERGENCY DECREE LAW NO.685 This article was written by a lawyer in Turkey, requesting his name kept secret for security reasons 1-INTRODUCTION: After 15 July coup attemp, the state of emergency was declared on 21 July 2016 across the country and then the emergency decree laws were issued one by one by the Council of Ministers over presiding of the President of the Republic. Within the context of the emergency decree laws, just like the firmans (commands) of the Sultans in Ottoman Empire, many regulations, which are not provisional but essential, in the field of fundemental rights and duties of the…

Letter from Turkey, directed to the blog editor, addressed to the public: “My husband was a judge in Turkey. He was dismissed and arrested after the coup attempt. I have two small kids. It has been 7 months since the coup attempt. He is still in prison. I don’t believe in justice anymore. What will happen to us? They wish us to die, starve or what? There are lots of people who are worse than me, but I am no better than an ordinary person on the street. Imagine that your life has changed in a bloody night, but you have nothing to do with the people who are the reason for…

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[an email to the blog editor] The human rights situation in Turkey has deteriorrated due to the purges and crackdown on extended sections of the society including journalist,academics judges prosecutors other civil servants as well as ordinary people on the street since the attempted coup in July 2016. One devastating problem relates to the treatment that the detainees are receiving in prison. The penitentiary institutions began to use solitary confinement as a means of inflicting additional hardship and imposing extra punishment on many detainees arbitrarily. I have learned through my informal contacts with the families that many members of the judiciary are in fact being exposed to similar solitary confinement…

[Email to the blog editor] Hello sir.. thank you for your mail .. we are suffering from material difficulties, we are suffering from spiritual problems .. my husband has been kept in prison for 7 months without any concrete evidence. He has the uncertainty about us. Unfortunately, my husband who was arrested while I was 5 months pregnant could not be with us at the birth of my son. I had a very risky emergency surgery. My baby and I have survived the danger of life. I wanted to go with the prosecutor who is interested in the file of my husband and explain the situation and release my husband with a petition with…

[email from turkey to the blog editor] I am very glad to get an answer from you. I am only one example among all the judges/prosecutors’ families who have been facing injustice since the Coup. As we were representing justice, equity and fairness right besides our husbands, we were accused of being a part of a group which wasn’t true. Among all the judges/prosecutors, nearly 4000 were dismissed and nearly 2500 of them were sent to prison like my husband. Our husbands are innocent cause they didn’t do anything illegal but their job. Actually they haven’t even been given any chance to defense themselves. They haven’t got any allegation. The…

[Mail from Turkey to the blog editor] DO YOU HEAR THE İNNOCENT JUDGE AND PROSECUTORS VOİCE? WE ARE INDEPENDENT AND HARDWORKING AND HONEST LOVER JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS. NOW IN TURKEY WE HAVE ANY SOLUTION. BUT WE BELIEVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS MUST BE EVERY WHERE. YOU ARE THE PROTECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING URGENT ABOUT US. OUR FAMILİES OUR BABİES ARE DİSOLATED AND MİSERABLE AND POOR AND CONFUSED. DO YOU KNOW MANY JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS ARE İN SOLITERY CONFINEMENT İSOLATED İN CELLS FOR 6 MONTHS AND THE ECHR DOES NOT SEE THIS AS A MATTER OF URGENT APPLICATION? ARRESTED JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS IN TURKEY ARE BEING HELD…

Report by Hans Gaasbeek* about the international lawyer conference held in Ankara (Turkey) between the 13th and 15thof January, 2017 [The original of the report can be found on the site of “European Democratic Lawyers” , it’s republished in this blug for increased distribution] The ‘International Conference On Law, State of Emergency And Judicial System in Turkey’ was co-organized by different European lawyer organizations like: the AED (European Democratic Lawyers), the ELDH (European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights) and the Foundation Day of the Endangered Lawyer. The conference was also co-organized by the European organization of judges MEDEL (Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés). A great number of bar associations of cities in all corners…

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 the ECHR without trying the remedy of the individual application to the Constitutional Court. (submitted to the blog by a source who is know to the editor, it’s name is kept confidential for security reasons) Turkey has become a great prison. Nearly, eveybody has been held under arrest. Since 15 July, the number of the…

The Consiglio Nazionale Forense, which represents 250.000 lawyers across Italy in 139 Bars and Law Societies of Italian cities, published a letter in which the Council expressed “the strongest condemnation for the final closure of some associations of lawyers and the arrest of many colleagues in Turkey.” The letter also protested “for the arrest, that took place at Istanbul airport, on January 13, 2017, of lawyer Barbara Spinelli, from the Court of Bologna, which, after 17 hours of deprivation of liberty, was permanently expelled from Turkey and repatriated with a flight Istanbul- Bologna.” http://washingtonhatti.com/2017/02/07/250k-member-italian-national-bar-association-strongly-condemns-arrests-of-turkish-lawyers/

Thousands were dismissed, including many academicians. Prof. Ibrahim Kaboglu, a prominent jurist, leftist and critics to the government is one of them. http://213.14.3.44/20170207/20170207M1-1-1.pdf http://213.14.3.44/20170207/20170207m1-1.htm   4,464 More Public Servants Purged In New Gov’t Decree In Turkey  With a new state of emergency decree issued on Tuesday, the Turkish government has dismissed 4,464 more public servants. The relentless purge that gained momentum after a failed coup on July 15, 2016 this time dismissed civil servants from the police force, Ministry of Education, Supreme Court of Appeals and Higher Election Board (YSK). According to the new decree, numbered 686, a total of 4,464 civil servants are dismissed from state bodies. The decree…