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Metin Feyzioğlu has been appointed as Türkiye's new ambassador to Prague, diplomatic sources confirmed on July 27.

Feyzioğlu, who was previously serving as ambassador to the northern part of Nicosia, the capital of the divided island of Cyprus, will be replaced by Deputy Foreign Minister Yasin Ekrem Serim.

Ankara Bar Association chair Erinç Sağkan has been elected the new president of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB), defeating Metin Feyzioğlu.

Kemal Vuraldogan, a former legal counsellor to the Ankara Bar Association and a lawyer in Ankara, said Erdogan's demands for changes to their election systems had nothing to do with current dispute between the Bar Association and the religious authorities.

A last-minute decision by Turkey's electoral board to allow unstamped ballots in the April 16 constitutional referendum was "clearly against the law," preventing proper records being kept and potentially impacting the result, the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has stated.

Tens of thousands march in Diyarbak?r as the city lays to rest lawyer Tahir Elçi following his assassination in unclear circumstancesAround 50,000 people gathered in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r for the funeral ceremony of Tahir Elçi, the Diyarbak?r Bar Association head who was apparently killed during clashes that erupted after the killing of two police officers by gunmen.

Upon the killing of the head of Diyarbak?r Bar Association Tahir Elçi, head of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) Metin Feyzio?lu called all heads of bar associations in Turkey to go to Diyarbak?r.

Feyzio?lu himself also departed for Diyarbak?r with the executive board of TBB. He said, "This mean attack was not against our brother Tahir but against the entire Turkey."

A group of business associations, unions and professional chambers have decided to hold a mass rally in the Turkish capital city of Ankara on Sept. 17 in a show of condemnation of ?terror.?

The head of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has said vowed not to give in to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) ahead of the Nov. 1 elections.

As the new legal year started with ceremonies held at courts across the country on Sept. 1, the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) announced that it would mark the occasion by marching to Atatürk?s mausoleum in Ankara on Sept. 5, ?hand in hand with the citizens? to stress the ?need for the rule of law and to stand against terror.?