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…