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Interior minister draws condemnation after saying jailing lawyers will 'finish off PKK'
The Diyarbakır Bar has said Minister Soylu's remarks were intended to criminalize lawyers and violated the presumption of innocence.
22 May 2023
Alleged unlawful search in Kurdish lawyer's home
Accompanied by police officers, the prosecutor ordered all case files and digital materials be seized, including an indictment he had prepared for another case without making copies.
26 April 2023
Diyarbakır Bar Association brings CMK fees to State Council
Applying to State Council, Diyarbakır Bar Association requested that the fee tariff for 2023 should be canceled and a new tariff should be determined for CMK fees for lawyers.
30 December 2022
Lawyer seriously injured after being run over by police in Şırnak
The Şırnak Bar Association has denounced the incident, which it said showed "none of us are safe."
11 April 2022
Investigation into lawyers over statement about Turkey's Afrin operation dismissed 4 years later
"The real crime was opening an investigation into a statement for the press. Positive that a case was not filed but not giving the decision for four years kept those who were investigated under pressure," lawyer Kemal Aytaç has said.
11 April 2022
Ayça Söylemez
9 lawyers who protested trustees put on trial upon police officers’ complaint
Upon police officers’ criminal complaint, a lawsuit has been filed against nine lawyers who made a press statement in İstanbul in protest against the dismissal of the HDP's elected metropolitan co-mayors of Diyarbakır, Van and Mardin in 2019.
2 November 2021
ECtHR says death fasting lawyers 'voluntarily risked their lives'
Going on a death fast demanding a fair trial, lawyer Ebru Timtik lost her life last year and Aytaç Ünsal ended his death fast shortly after.
2 July 2021
Ayça Söylemez
Prosecutor 'forgets' appeal deadline but the court doesn't care
In a case concerning lawyer Efkan Bolaç, the prosecutor lodged an appeal 20 days after the court verdict but the appeal period was seven days.
25 June 2021
Ayça Söylemez
Lawyers' groups say Ministry of Interior responsible for the armed attack on HDP
In a joint statement, lawyers noted that the assailant was able to enter the building with a weapon despite a "police checkpoint, police vehicles and dozens of police officers whose duty is to 'protect' the HDP."
18 June 2021
RESISTANCE AGAINT STONE QUARRY
Open call to Rize Bar for İkizdere: Number of lawyers tops 1,200
The number of lawyers who express their support for the ongoing resistance against the stone quarry attempted to be opened in Rize’s İkizdere has increased to 1,262: “We call on Rize Bar to keep an ear to people's struggle for rights, law and justice.”
10 May 2021
Sakine Orman
OPEN CALL
870 lawyers to Rize Bar Association: Hear the voice of İkizdere
In a joint statement about the resistance against a stone quarry planned to be opened in İkizdere, 870 lawyers say, “We call on the Rize Bar: Hear the voice of the people of İkizdere on the brink of the abyss. Keep an ear to their struggle for justice.”
7 May 2021
Sakine Orman
Lawyer Efkan Bolaç's phone to be confiscated for 'search for indications of a crime'
Investigating the lawyer over a social media post, prosecutors ordered the confiscation of his phone to look for other "indications of crime."
13 April 2021
Ayça Söylemez
LETTER FROM IMPRISONED LAWYERS
Prison administration 'imposes quota on books, tap water' amid pandemic
Two lawyers who have been convicted in the Progressive Lawyers' Association case continue to practice law by telling the problems they face.
19 February 2021
Ayça Söylemez
Lawyers commemorate Tahir Elçi five years after his killing
"We have lost Tahir as a result of a political assassination. This was neither the first nor the last political homicide," said lawyers.
30 November 2020
OPERATIONS AGAINST DTK
Seventeen lawyers detained during house raids in Diyarbakır
The detentions have been made as part of an investigation against the Democratic Society Congress, many members of which have been detained and sent behind bars over the past few months in the Kurdish-majority provinces.
20 November 2020
Human Rights Association: A new ‘operation of intimidation’ against lawyers
In a statement about the detention of 60 legists, the İHD has noted that “it cannot be the subject of an investigation whom a lawyer will defend, what she talked with her client during the defense and what tactic she will follow in preparing the defense.”
15 September 2020
LAWYER EBRU TİMTİK'S DEATH
Erdoğan suggests debarment of lawyers engaged in 'terrorism'
The President has joined the ministers of interior and justice in targeting the İstanbul Bar Association over the poster of lawyer Ebru Timtik, who lost her life on a death fast.
1 September 2020
Ebru Timtik's sister not allowed at her funeral, people's march prevented
While the prosecutor's office permitted Barkın timtik to attend the funeral, the gendarmerie prevented her "due to pandemic measures."
28 August 2020
Lawyer Ebru Timtik dies on 238th day of death fast
Demanding a fair trial, Timtik had been on a death fast since January 2.
27 August 2020
Death fasting lawyers 'have not days but hours left'
HDP MP Musa Piroğlu attended the demonstration in front of the hospital today.
26 August 2020
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DEATH FASTING LAWYERS
Same court, same report, two different decisions
The attorneys of Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal stated in their application to the Constitutional Court that the lower court's decision not to release the lawyers was "contradictory, unlawful and arbitrary."
11 August 2020
Ayça Söylemez
Death fasting lawyers: 'Conditions in prison were better than hospital'
After the court rejected their request for release, Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal were taken to the hospital for force-feeding.
3 August 2020
Death fasting lawyers taken to Forensic Medicine Institution for examination
After the institution's report, the court will decide whether the lawyers should be released.
29 July 2020
Ayça Söylemez
Death fasting lawyer Ebru Timtik 'having difficulties talking'
Lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have been on a hunger strike for "a fair trial." for 197 and 166 days respectively.
17 July 2020
There is 'no serious trial' of police officer who broke lawyer's backbone
While the defendant police officer was not present in the courtroom, a police officer was assigned to watch the hearing.
14 July 2020
Ruken Tuncel
DEFENSE ON THE MARCH
Bar associations' union steps in as lawyers blocked at entrance of Ankara
Marching from various provinces to Ankara in protest of the planned changes in the Attorneys' Act, lawyers are stuck at the entrance of the city as the police block them. Here are the latest updates...
22 June 2020
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Lawyers Detained in Diyarbakır and Urfa
Nine lawyers, former HDP executive Sedat Çelik and Salih Erbekler, a former worker of Radyo Karacadağ radio station closed by a Statutory Decree, have been taken into custody in Diyarbakır and Urfa.
12 March 2020
Ruken Tuncel
Lawyers from Around the World Call for a ‘World Without Wars and Borders’
806 lawyers from 17 countries have denounced the plight of refugees at Turkey-Greece border and said, “War and border policies should be ended immediately.”
10 March 2020
HRW Report on Lawyers in Turkey: They Feel Like 'Extras' in Hearings
The Human Rights Watch has released a report on the prosecution against lawyers in Turkey, examining the case files of 168 lawyers. It has urged the government to "end prosecuting lawyers."
10 April 2019
Day of the Endangered Lawyer Dedicated to Lawyers in Turkey
The European law organizations have dedicated the January 24 Day of the Endangered Lawyer to the lawyers in Turkey.
21 January 2019
Ayça Söylemez
300 Lawyers Take the Road for Cizre
Lawyers across Turkey took the road for Cizre. Diyarbakır Bar President Elçi, “Our mission is to see unlawfulness on site and to stick with Cizre people.”
11 September 2015
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
LAWYERS ON TRIAL IN KCK SUIT
Court Refuses to Release Suspect Lawyers in KCK Trial
The defendant lawyers in the second Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial in Istanbul requested a stay of proceedings and the release of the defendants. The court rejected all their demands in the suit where some 46 lawyers are currently facing terrorism related charges.
17 July 2012
Nilay Vardar
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