QUESTIONS AUX PARTIES Sur la base des griefs communiqués selon la liste en annexe  1.  a)  Les placements en détention provisoire des requérants ont-ils eu lieu « selon les voies légales », notamment dans le respect des garanties procédurales reconnues aux magistrats en droit interne ? b)  Peut-on considérer que les requérants ont été placés en détention sur la base de « raisons plausibles de soupçonner » qu’ils avaient commis une infraction (voir, notamment, Fox, Campbell et Hartley c. Royaume-Uni, 30 août 1990, § 32, série A no 182) ? Les parties sont notamment invitées à répondre à cette question en tenant compte, –  d’une part, de l’article 100 du code de procédure pénale, lequel exige « des preuves concrètes qui démontrent l’existence de forts…

Original in French, translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES On the basis of the objections communicated in accordance with the list in the Annex 1. (a) Did the applicants’ pre-trial detention take place “in accordance with the law”, in particular with due regard for the procedural guarantees afforded to judges under domestic law? (b) Can the applicants be considered to have been detained on the basis of “reasonable grounds to suspect” that they had committed an offence (see, in particular, Fox, Campbell and Hartley v. the United Kingdom, 30 August 1990, § 32, Series A No. 182)? In particular, the parties are invited to answer this question taking into…

  Link to the detailed statement of facts setting out the applicants’ complaints and the questions put to the parties.

(translator known   Today is August 12, 2017. So the 1st anniversary of my imprisonment. Innocently, in a tiny room, between four walls, I spent a whole year, a whole year cost me such as a life time, apart from my loved ones. During my stay here, I always thought what I did the same day last year. Last year we were at the festival, we celebrated the birthday of my children in here, we welcomed the newyear eve at Ayder Plateau, we were at Kaçkarlar at that time, this time we were together with our friends … From now on, every day when I remember last year, I will…

(translator known by editor) Here is the letter: To my friends; We say, “justice will prevail sooner or later,” and “Justice delayed is justice denied”… But how much do these two statements contradict each other whereas? If justice delayed is justice denied, how sooner or later it can prevail ? how one calls justice that prevails so late ? I have spent 11 months in prison today. How much longer do I have to wait for this justice to prevail itself? If I release tomorrow, will this be fair? And I am not going to be released tomorrow. My indictment was written a month and a half ago, but heavens…

(author know to editor)   @JHofTURKEY shared a tweet flood, which includes some quotation from a newspaper interviewed with three judges’s wifes (two of them also dismissed judges). They live in Turkey, and seem to me crying for you for help to reach them. I am sure the jounalist will happly give their information, and urge you to help them, show they are not alone. 1- Ayse says My husband is in a cell for months, never sees the sky. 2-She continues “as if we were buried alive since the coup attempt.” 3-“a five square meter cell, with a toilet for 60 persons.” adds Hatice. 4-“presented to a bloody young…

Former Turkey Tax Court Judge Sukru Say addresses American Bar Association House delegates Aug. 14 during the 2017 Annual Meeting session in New York. ABA Annual Meeting 2017

[Author known by editor] After Charlie Hebdo massacre, like many media outlet in the world, Cumhuriyet Daily also had published a section from the first issue of the Charlie Hebdo magazine following the masssacre. After this solidarity in terms of press freedom, Cumhuriyet had faced several difficulties including search of delivery trucks going out from the press houses. In the protests taking place in front of Cumhuriyet, some slogans “Kuaşi brothers are our honour” were shouted in favor of those carrying out Charlie Hebdo massacre and also press releases were made during protest demonsrations saying Kuaşi brothers had made proud of Muslims and wishing the approvement of their shahada. In…

The Guardian: March for Turkey’s jailed judges highlights purge on dissidents Erdoğan accused of crippling democracy with hundreds from judiciary, media and civil service still detained after coup attempt Nesrin Şimşek remembers in vivid detail the moment she was released from prison and was reunited with her infant son. “I cried for a month after I saw my baby again,” recalled the former Turkish judge. “He had given up breastfeeding while I was in jail, and in every dream I saw my child, and I was trying to give him milk.” Şimşek (not her real name) was taken with her husband from their home on the Black Sea four days…

(author known to editor) Ahmet Altan has continued his court testimony by saying that “We were arrested because we criticised the AKP… (However) for me being a defendant in a trial like this and spending my life in jail is more honourable than being the prosecutor… There is no freedom of expression in this country except for the prosecutor’s lies… I don’t have any requests and your judgements don’t have anything to do with me. All judges will be judged by their own judgements.” “They are being charged with the same accusations as those who picked up rifles and committed violence on the night of the coup,” said Tobias Garnett,…

letter written by a Turkish judge The situation in our country is getting worse every day. In a sense this article; The call of S.O.S from the setting sun of law … a shout for help. Maybe a desperate crying ! *** My dear Colleagues; I have worked twenty years as a judge. Throughout my life, I have defended “pluralist democracy”, “state of law” and “human rights”. I will continue to defend. I have opposed all sorts of “terror” and “violence”. I’ve always been away from everyday politics. I have not compromised on these principles. Like many of my colleagues, now I am paying a heavy price of this… After…

1. NUMBER OF DISMISSED JUDGES/PROSECUTORS (5218) In the last official statement of the HSYK, the number of dismissed judges and prosecutors (excluding military judges) was announced as 4238. After that, according to the Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli’s May 2017 statement in a TV program; 4444 judges&prosecutors 489 military judges 4933 (TOTAL) judges ans prosecutors was dismissed. Including Court of Accounts auditors who are accepted in judiciary statute, this number reaches 5218: https://mobile.twitter.com/Av_EvrenSEL/status/864132324824428545 2. NUMBER OF ARRESTED JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS (3089) Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu made the final announcement in March about the number of judges/prosecutors who are under arrest as 2575. However, the number of arrested and released judiciary…

(author known to editor) Independence and impartiality, indispensable quality, honor and virtue of judiciary. A judiciary who does not use his conscious, sells his personality, breaks it down and betrays himself and his nation, country and state before anyone and anything else. In a political environment where distortions and irregularities have been overtaken and the contradictions and immoderations in different sections have been experienced and the pledges have been forgotten and negated, partisanism is gradually increasing, and objectionable procedure and actions follow each other. Lastly, 800 of the 900 judges appointed by the Ministry of Justice, who has relations to AKP is horrifying. In a country where the judiciary has…

(author known to editor) CHP İSTANBUL MP BARIŞ YARKADAŞ CONTINUED TO REVEAL AKP MEMBER APPOINTED “VIP” JUDGES. IMPARTIALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY ARE NO LONGER PRINCIPALS IN TURKISH JUSTICE SYSTEM SEVCAN KARAYİĞİT- The daughter of Ahmet Karayiğit, Chief Law Advisor of the Presidency FURKAN BARUTÇU – AKP Sultanbeyli District Founding President İLYAS DEMİRCAN- AKP Balikesir İvrindi District Head Of Party YADIGAR DEMİRCAN – AKP Balikesir İvrindi District Head Of Partys wife … Member of AKP Women’s Branch SERKAN BAŞOK – Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor Mehmet Siyami Başok’s nephew who decided verdict of non-prosecution about former Kayseri metropolitan mayor now AKP MP Mehmet Özhaseki AHMET EMRE ARIKAN – AKP Member of…

(author known to editor) First: please find the name lists of 107 dismissed judges on 5/5/2017: http://www.ntv.com.tr/galeri/turkiye/ihrac-edilen-hakim-ve-savcilarin-listesi,lF4ptnjKqE-7vxwDW2QLfA http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/107-more-judges-prosecutors-dismissed-over-gulen-links-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=112792&NewsCatID=509 Second: “Speaking to the media, Deputy Chair Mehmet Yilmaz, said when new names will emerge after confessions from suspects, the judicial board will evaluate them; however, work on the existing list has come to an end. “We are not working on any other list,” he added. http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-over-100-feto-linked-judges-prosecutors-sacked/812259 Third: “… the proposed constitution will give (gave) Mr. Erdogan total control over the judiciary. In fact, the new constitution would allow the president to appoint four members to the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors, Turkey’s highest legal body responsible for oversight of a…

“My father is fighting for his life in a cell. Doctors say he will probably live 2 more years at his best.” Mustafa Erdoğan, a member of the Supreme Court of Cassation, is not released despite his life struggle in prison. The story of the cruel persecution towards a family from Mustafa Erdoğan’s daughter Buket Erdoğan’s; Here is Buket Erdoğan’s letter; First of all hi, I am Buket Buket Erdoğan. I am a second year student at Ankara University Faculty of Law. I am studying law in the same school that my father, Mustafa Erdoğan a former Court of Cassation member, studied and graduated once, for being a legal expert…