Judges and Prosecutors Union

A former Turkish judge was shortlisted for the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize 2017, alongside two others from Austria and Hungary. 

Murat Arslan, who has been under arrest since 2016, is described by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as "a well-known and reputed judge."

A system of cameras that can record audio will be installed in Ankara city buses as part of a series of security precautions introduced after multiple suicide bombings in the Turkish capital which have claimed scores of lives in the last six months. The system, which will be installed in nearly 2,000 buses, will be carried out according to a new protocol signed between the Ankara Metropolitan M

Turkey's top court has refused an appeal by the families of the 34 people who were killed by a Turkish jet airstrike on the Iraq border in late 2011 on procedural grounds, around a year-and-a-half after the families filed their individual complaints to the court.

A legal arrangement allowing for public servants to attend Friday prayers without interrupting their office hours has gone into force, as a related circular by the Turkish Prime Ministry was published in the Official Gazette on Jan. 8.

The growing number of court cases opened against individuals in Turkey on charges of "insulting" the president has prompted several professional chambers of jurists to hold a workshop on the issue, during which they asserted the issue was a "political" one which needed to be fought against through political methods.

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office in charge of investigating the Oct. 10 double suicide bombing, which has so far killed 102 people, has focused on foreign intelligence services' possible role in the attack. 

Two separate lawsuits have been filed for the cancellation and suspension of execution of the reappointment of Hakan Fidan to his post as head of the National Intelligence Agency (M?T) after he had resigned to run for parliament for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) last month.

For the first time, Turkey’s judiciary officially owns a union after the Labor and Social Security Ministry has given it a code, which bestows the right to function as a union.