Who does belief this: 8 months after a putsch attempt the HCJP detects that 200 more judges and prosecutors were involved in it !!??? http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/son-dakika-hsykdan-flas-ihraclar-40398753 Turkish High Council of Judges and Prosecutors dismissed 202 more judges and prosecutors on the 17th of March, 2017. The total number of dismissed judges and prosecutors has reached 4088.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) TURKEY OPINION ON THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON 21 JANUARY 2017 AND TO BE SUBMITTED TO A NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON 16 APRIL 2017 (Original)

110th PLENARY – Turkey – Proposed constitutional amendments “dangerous step backwards” for democracy 10/03/2017 (see the original here) Venice – The 110th plenary of the Venice Commission has just adopted its Opinion on the constitutional amendments submitted to a national referendum on 16 April 2017. This opinion had been requested by the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly. First of all, the Commission warns against a “one-person regime” in Turkey in its definitive, as discussed and adopted in plenary, text of the opinion. The Commission notes that by removing necessary checks and balances, the amendments would not follow the model of a democratic presidential system based on…

“They should be put into prisons first,” they said. Even the name of the prison is creepy … There are about 200K detainees and convicts in prisons. The detainees’ first request is a trial without arrest. If there is no trial without arrest, preparing the indictment about them as soon as possible is their priority. For example, 129 days have passed since the arrest of the authors and administrators of the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper. Two professions in the world are directly related to human life. One is a physician and the other is a judge … The duty of physician is to put the diagnosis of the patient, to treat…

  The Turkish Ministry of Justice has set up an “information website”. It’s nicely done, with pleasant coloring and appealing presentation. It could whet the site-visitors’ appetite to read the information on the site. The verb “could” is chosen here on purpose: because one doesn’t know wether this is real information on that site or if it’s just a load of disinformation. You’re sceptical? Have a look yourself: 7th of March 20117, TR724 published the following news: DISMISSED JUDGE OF COUNCIL OF STATE PASSED AWAY. It was claimed that the former dismissed rapporteur judge at the Council of State, Mehmet Tosun, passed away and was buried today. And what does the website…

(Sender known to blog editor) Dear Sir I would like to raise one of the human violations in Turkey. Yesterday theTurkish judiciary lost one of its members, Mehmet Tosun, a 29 years old judge, a new husband and an innocent individual. He was quite young professional eager to devote himself to justice. He got sick in 2014, treated 2 years in Universty hospital, and struggle with illness. Virus destroyed his immune system, which he lost 25 kg during treatment. However, he never gave up. After july 15, he was purged and detained. Then he was released after detention because of his health reason. But he was brutally treated during police…

(Sender known to blog editor) Dear All, I am writing this e-mail to you in tears. Unfortunately we lost an administrative judge Mehmet Tosun in Sincan Prison today. He was only 29. He was arrested after the coup and also was fired by HSYK. The Court knew that Mehmet Tosun has a genetic disease related to his immune system. So that he had to live in hygienic conditions not only for his body but also his soul. The Court did not accept his disease to be released conditionally. Today, Turkish authorities including judiciary killed a man, a husband, a judge and a colleague. Nobody talked about Mehmet Tosun in Turkey…

(Author known to blog editor, kept secret for security reasons) İhsan Eliaçik, one of the main actors in Gezi protests and well known theoligian: “Today, many lawsuits have been brought against me. I was sentenced to pay two thousand tl on charge of insulting to President of the Republic. In last days, the lawsuits have been filed against me over terror charges. We are opposition to ruling government for 20 years and we have been subjected to persecution all the time in this period. However, this period is worse than the era of 28 February. In that period, at least there were some judges and prosecutors performing their duty properly…

(Author known to blog editor, kept secret for security reasons) A few hours after 15th July coup attempt, 2745 judges and prosecutors were suspended and detention warrants were issued for them althogh even the names of the coup plotter soldiers were not identified yet. As of today, nearly 4000 judges and prosecutors were dismissed, 3000 of them were arrested, 680 of them have been held in solitary confinement in prison cells to force them for confession although deputy president of Judicial Council (HSYK) Mehmet YILMAZ admits there is no evidence of having involvement in the coup attempt for judges. More than 7,5 months passed but no indictments have been prepared…

A REAL STORY EXPERIENCED BY AN ARRESTED JUDGES’ FAMILY My name is Ahmet. I am a person who lives a modest life. I went to chat with a friend of mine who was working in Social Assistance because I was really frustrated recently. When I was having tea, my friend said to me: “Ahmet, nothing so bad but might have been worse, be grateful” what was it, what happened ? I said. He told me about an incident that he faced 3 days ago: A woman recently came for help to organization. She was a little shy and embarrassed, with a baby in her hand and a child with her…