The case of lawyer Erol Altintas has highlighted the worrying practice of Turkish courts of using perfectly legal activities as grounds for criminal conviction, as well as ignoring relevant rulings by the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee, raising doubts about the fairness and independence of the country’s legal system.
On the fourth anniversary of the Halfeti torture incident, lawyer Gökhan Dayık wrote about the incident and the continuing state of impunity.
Halfeti’deki işkence vakasının dördüncü yıldönümünde avukat Gökhan Dayık olayı ve devam eden cezasızlık uygulamasını yazdı.
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors coerced the dismissed judges and prosecutors signing undated resignation letters by threatening them with social death.
The question is presently not whether the Turkish judiciary, including civil and criminal courts and the prosecution, has been corrupted to the core, but whether this corruption can ever be amended, even with the possibility of Erdogan and his government being replaced in the next year’s general election.
Although it is evident that (black)lists of to be arrested and dismissed judges & prosecutors might be pre-drafted, it is the first time creators of (black)lists admitted their role, which was recorded in a court document.