Last week the Şırnak Governor’s Office announced that the HDP official referendum campaign song, “Bejin Na‘’ (Say No), has been banned in Şırnak for “inciting hatred and hostility among the people.” The HDP’s campaign song was composed by Kurdish singer Şeyda Perinçek and widely used by Kurdish politicians while campaigning to persuade people to vote “no” in a critical referendum on April 16 that will introduce an executive presidency in the country if approved. Source: Turkishminute.com Want to hear it anyhow?

Prolongation of detention of a prosecutor, already dead for 2 month, together with that of 345 other detainees, without any real reasoning.

(author know to editor) JUDGE ID number 124797 / Mehmet Alçay-Tekirdağ Tax Court Judge published his personal story about dissmissal of judges and prosecutors. ( 25.03.2017, PUBLISHED IN ADALET ORG- PUBLIC PLATFORM FOR LAWYERS) Judge Alcay is still active judge in Turkey. He was questioned by one of HSYK Judge, who specisifcly deals with “FETO (Gulenist)” investigation. Judge Alcay argues that the HSYK judge told him the Council (HSYK) knows who voted to whom in the judicial election held in October 2014. Judge Alcay was faced these questions: 1- Whether he took a photo of his ballot, which can be proved he voted for YBP Assoc. candidates in October 2014…

(author known to the editor) 8 months ago my parents went today. My memories of that day are very hazy actually. As if it’s like i have heard from someone. We did not sleep the other night. My parent’s lawyer will come in the morning, my parents will go to the courthouse and they will be taken into custody. I remember it was a beautiful morning. It was not too hot, it was not cool either. We went out with my dad to get a pastry for breakfast. On the way home, my dad took a run to the grocery and got 2 pack of blackberry jellybeans. He had done…

(Written by a rapporteur judge at Court of Cassation who request his name kept secret for security reasons) THE BREACH OF THE RIGHT OF THE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS TO BE PRESUMED INNOCENT AND TURNING OF THE SECURITY MEASURES (ARREST&DETENTION) INTO IMPOSEMENT OF A PENALTY OWING TO NOT BEING BROUGHT AN ACTION AGAINST THEM 1. THE MILESTONES OF THE PROCESS THAT CAUSES DISMISSAL OF THE QUARTER OF THE JUDICIARY 1.1. As it was understood that the corruption and bribery investigation, launched by İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into the Iranian citizen Reza Zarrab who has been also prosecuted in USA on charge of money laundering and also covering the sons of…

I had got so angry, I was about to go mad but I did not have energy to attack the police officials or tell them even one word. It was the first one of my attacks of nerves that I had experienced in the last 8 months. At the beginning of this period, I was always crying. I did not have enough strength to resist police officials, however, I had it for my poor grandmother and my aunt who were trying to comfort me. My grandmother had bought an ice cream and soda water for me. Firstly, I bawled at her by saying what I was going to do with…

Arrested JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS “No. There are no channels to express ourselves. I am calling you because you wrote this topic before and of course you are a woman. ” The dictation of voice on the phone is smooth. Expressions are clear, determined. The name is hidden. Let’s say her name is Aysun. Mrs. Aysun is the wife of a judge who was taken into custody on 16 July 2016. Yes, July 16th. Just one of the judges and prosecutors’ wife who were taken under custody and arrested then dismissed immediately after the coup attempt, and whose total number is four thousand (its more than 4 thousands nowadays). Eventhough it…

(author know to the editor) In one of the most important press freedom cases in Turkey, most are in pre-trail detention for eight months without a trial and conviction, the court decided to release 21 out of 29 journalists, however, they were re-detained before the court’s release decision was implemented. Against the law scandal came after the campaign and threats of AKP trolls targeting jurists, harsh reaction has come from CHP, main opposition party. Here is the statements of CHP deputy Barış Yarkadaş, he made in his twitter account: 1-Today, in trial of press structure of FETO, İstanbul 25th Assize Court decided to release 21 out of 29 journalists on…

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…

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…