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

The Judicial Reform Strategy 2019 set the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms as the highest priority. Is the new package for COVID-19 or reform?

While DEVA Party’s leadership appears to understand the public’s desire for justice, it has yet to fully understand how justice can be served.