Another test of pluralist democracy and rule of law within President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) will take place next week. The test is on August 14-15. The Turkish parliament, currently on summer recess, will convene extraordinarily on August 15 to host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Following the assassination of Hamas leader
The legal proceedings surrounding the imprisonment of Can Atalay, a lawmaker from the Turkish Worker’s Party (TİP), have escalated into an acute crisis within the Turkish higher judiciary. On January 3, the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals once again resisted the Constitutional Court’s directive to release Atalay from prison, accusing it of
The judicial tension increased in Türkiye as Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court resisted once again the Constitutional Court’s explicit order for the release of the imprisoned lawmaker, Can Atalay, reiterating its previous decision and sent the file to the Supreme Court of Cassation which previously prompted a judicial crisis in the country. Istanbul 13th High
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suggestion to lower the presidential election threshold from 50+1 percent to 40+1 percent and to make it a single round, further clarifies that his easy re-election in 2028 is the main aim of the discourse on a new and civil constitution he started on the 12th of September at the Ulucanlar museum.
The Third Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Türkiye rejected complying with the Constitutional Court’s decision to release imprisoned lawmaker Can Atalay, filing a criminal complaint against the members of the top court, quoting that they “exceeded their authority.” In an unprecedented decision on November 9, the Supreme Court ruled to defy Constitutional Court’s
The Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled that the rights of Can Atalay, who was elected as Turkish Labor Party (TİP) Hatay lawmaker in May elections, were violated since he was not released from the prison he has been kept with the approval of his prison sentence in Gezi Park Protests case. Ruling on Atalay’s individual application
Turkiye’s Constitutional Court (AYM) announced in the Official Gazette on October 10, 2023 in its Keser Altıntaş decision that it will cease to review and will dismiss individual applications related to violations of the right to be tried within a reasonable time. The decision of the AYM General Council dated 25 July, with 9 in
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
Marking the sixth month since the human rights defenders were sentenced to 18 years in prison for the case brought against the 2013 Gezi Park protests, we face another judicial scandal. Let me remind you first that the case against the Gezi Protests, which was a nationwide civil protest that happened in May-June 2013, was
“The first prerequisite for winning a game is to know that you are in one. If you can’t change the board, change the players.” The quote is from Miles Copeland, a former CIA officer and jazz trumpet player. In his memoirs, Copeland recounted his involvement in numerous covert operations, including the March 1949 Syrian coup