The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has indicted Prof. Dr. İzzet Özgenç—one of Turkey’s leading criminal law scholars and a principal architect of the Turkish Penal Code (Law No. 5237)—for public comments criticizing a chamber of the Court of Cassation… Read More ›
Avukatlar Saldırı Altında, Yargı “Silahlaştırıldı,” Gürlek’in Terfisi Kınandı Avrupa Parlamentosu, bügün 17 Haziran 2026 tarihinde, Dış İşleri Komitesi tarafından hazırlanan rapora (raportör Nacho Sánchez Amor, A10-0106/2026) dayanarak, 2025 Komisyon Türkiye Raporu hakkındaki kararını resmen kabul etti. Kabul edilen metin, Türk… Read More ›
The European Parliament today, 17 June 2026, formally adopted its resolution on the 2025 Commission report on Türkiye, based on the report prepared by the Committee on Foreign Affairs (rapporteur Nacho Sánchez Amor, A10-0106/2026). The adopted text delivers one of… Read More ›
Fethi Un, Murat Korkmaz and Metin Yucel were nothing but lawyers. They were unlawfully identified with their clients and targeted. They were arrested and whilst in detention treated -in late Fethi Un’s own words- “worse than an animal” and their lives were stolen. Let us hope that no other prisoner shares the same fate.
The TLSP report illustrates the systematic capture of Türkiye’s judiciary by President Erdoğan’s regime, detailing how politically motivated prosecutions have manipulated legal processes to target dissenters, particularly lawyers and human rights defenders, eroding judicial independence and perpetrating human rights violations.
The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, criticizes Türkiye’s misuse of anti-terror laws to suppress dissent, highlighting immense pressure on lawyers and civil society, judicial non-compliance, and a lack of independence in the justice system.