Founder of Gun+Partners law firm, Chairman of Better Justice Association, Vice Chairman of TURKONFED
Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) throws in the towel and says there is an overload of complaints of violations from individuals regarding rights to fair trial. Howbeit TCC has the least workload among the higher courts in Turkey. Including the rapporteurs, each judge sitting at TCC has 300 cases, excluding the inadmissible applications, whereas Court of
European Commission’s 2022 Turkey observation report entered Turkey’s agenda and exited almost at the same time it was published, mainly because it carves the contentious issues in the EU’s favour and the righteous determinations and criticism of the report get to be officially ignored. While the penultimate statement in the report that “Turkey is a
The US public’s anger against the US Supreme Court’s leaked draft of abortion ruling to overturn a 1973 landmark jurisprudence in the Rove v Wade decision 49 years, almost a half century, later and the President Biden recommending that the Court should not do so demonstrate how much the judiciaries have become politicised and how
“Peace at home, peace in the world” said Atatürk, the founder of Modern Turkey. Having fought in North Africa, Middle East, Balkans, Gallipoli during the collapse of Ottomans and in Anatolia where he founded Turkey, he had seen the disastrous destruction of international hostilities that war brings to humanity and civilisations. This is what we
I complain about the directors of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) because the Governor of the CBRT and the members of the Monetary Policy Committee flagrantly violated their duty to adhere that the “primary objective of the Bank shall be to achieve and maintain price stability.” imposed by Central Bank Law
The protocol accident European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen experienced and the statements released afterwards once again revealed the mood that prevailed in EU-Turkey relations. Instead of working to realize the enormous potential of unity and cooperation between these two parties, to strengthen the liberal democracy front in the world by becoming one of
A head-on collision – as the Westerners say – is underway between the bar associations and the members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). The reason is the discussions on changes to the bars ordered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following Ankara Bar’s harsh criticism of Ali Erbaş, chair of Religious Affairs. These so-called
The presidents of bar associations oppose the amendments that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to make to the Attorneyship Act. As a protest, they set off to Ankara on June 19th from the various cities they reside in. The apparent aim of this amendment that AKP insists on making, even though all
Of all the pronouncements made over the past weeks, the Director-General of the World Health Organization has made one important point that we can’t afford to look past. He said that COVID-19 can only be defeated through a united global effort. Without a vaccine, the virus will remain amongst populations anywhere and the rest of