Chief Public Prosecutor's Office

Turkey's state of emergency decrees are unlawful, Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TTB) head Metin Feyzioğlu has said, as the government continues to impose sweeping post-coup attempt measures.

"What's being done is unlawful and neglectful," Feyzioğlu told journalists on Oct. 30, saying parliament is being "ignored with the state of emergency decrees."

The co-chair of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has been called to testify on charges of "being a member of an armed terrorist organization." 

HDP co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş was called to testify as a part of the probe launched by Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

A second lawsuit has been filed against a teacher in the Ere?li district of the Central Anatolian province of Konya, after he was sentenced on April 20 to 508 years and three months in jail on charges of sexually assaulting 10 school children in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman.

Daily Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin has been awarded German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle's (DW) Freedom of Speech Award, which honors individuals who "exemplify human rights and free speech."

In his initial response, Ergin said he was "honored to receive the prize that stands for preservation of press freedom worldwide."

A case concerning claims that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants "sold" Yazidi women and children, which ended in the acquittal of the suspects in 16 days, has drawn reactions from the bar association in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, which said key evidence in the case had not been examined.

HOW CAN A NON-EXISTENT TAX BE EVADED? The indictment issued by Adem Meral, an Istanbul prosecutor who seeks up to 24.5 years in prison for Ayd?n Do?an, the Honorary Chairman of Turkey's leading Do?an Holding, is full of mistakes and contradictions. For instance, it is impossible to collect or evade a tax for an import transaction that is not taxed in legislation.

Freedom of the press in Turkey has been confined to court corridors in 2016, said Sedat Ergin, the editor-in chief of daily Hürriyet, who appeared before an Istanbul court on March 25 on charges of "insulting" the president.

The Bak?rköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened the case after investigating a tweet posted on Hürriyet's Twitter account on Sept. 6, 2015.

Arrest warrants have been issued for a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, who Turkey's president accuses of attempting to topple the government, and his brother on terrorism charges, a Turkish prosecutor has said.

An indictment has been prepared against television channel Kanal D on the grounds that it insulted the president by showing a banner that appeared during a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) election during one of its morning programs.

There are plenty of TV news channels in Turkey, but among them, CNN Türk stands out. For most of the "news channels" are actually propaganda outlets - the overwhelming majority of them for the government, just a few of them against the government. CNN Türk, however, tries to be non-partisan and objective.