Monthly Archives 31/07/2017

[OPINION] Taking Hostage as New Toolkit for Turkish Foreign Policy Under Erdogan

By Ebubekir ISIK The public opinion is quite familiar with cases of terrorist networks’ or organized crime syndicates’ kidnapping for ransom or hostage-taking, subsequently to be used as co... Read More...

[OPINION] Observations on ByLock App and Arrest of the UN Judge Sefa Akay

By EMRAH AKSU In Turkey, we encounter many unreasonable, illegal and ambiguous judicial acts in recent years as a part of autocratic drift. These judicial practices inexplicable within fundamental legal ... Read More...

[OPINION] Statement of Judicial Council (HSK) Board of Inspectors Chairman: Investigation Procedure for Judiciary and End of Judicial Independence in Turkey

By LEVENT YILDIRIM Introduction More than 100.000 public officials have been dismissed from their profession unlawfully, many taken into custody and arrested within the scope of t... Read More...

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AKP Government’s Hostility towards Dissidents and Exploitation of Probation

By MELIS TON With the Decree Law No. 671 enacted on 17.08.2016, a provisional article was added to the Law on the Execution of Sentences and Security Measures and this provisional article lead to two i... Read More...

[OPINION] Erdogan’s Muscles: All in The Game

By KURSAT YILMAZ In the last decade, disguised behind the discourse of magic words such as democracy, justice, good governance, civil rights and national will, Turkey has step by step transform... Read More...

[REPORT] NON-INDEPENDENCE AND NON-IMPARTIALITY OF TURKISH JUDICIARY

Platform for Peace & Justice has released its report on the abolition of independence and impartiality of judiciary in Turkey. The comprehensive report which has been prepared by a group of human rights law... Read More...

[OPINION] Decree Laws as a means of Revival of the “Civil Death” in Turkey

By IHSAN GUMUS Hunger strike Nuriye G. (academic) and Semih Ö. (teacher) are just two of the victims fired by the decree laws introduced under the state of emergency. Although it remains highly uncert... Read More...

[OPINION] How opposition cowardice is destroying Turkish democracy?

By M. BEHZAD FATMI On July 15 2017, Turkey marked the first anniversary of an attempted coup in which at least 260 people were killed. Government sponsored events were held nationwide to commemorate th... Read More...

Int’l Crisis Group report reveals conflict with PKK killed in two years twice more than pre-Peace process

International Crisis Group released a report on Turkey's fight against PKK. The report shows that the escalating violence in Turkey's south east took 3000 lives during the post-Peace Process. Click to read the ... Read More...

Wives of three jailed judges spoke to German journalist: “Our husbands buried alive since the coup attempt”

Three brave women made an interview with Von Frank Nordhausen from a German News Paper. The interview was in German. Justice House Platform for Turkey translated it in English by helping Google Translate. &... Read More...