September 5, 2019
A group of Turkish lawyers who fled an ongoing purge in Turkey, has come together in Berlin, Germany, to mark the opening of the new judicial year, the Kronos news portal reported.
According to the report, the event was held in support of some 50 bar associations in Turkey that boycotted the opening ceremony of the new judicial year at the President Erdogan’s presidential palace in Ankara, citing the independence of judiciary from executive power.
The independence of the Turkish judiciary came further into question when the new judicial year opening ceremony held at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s palace in September 2016 turned into a display of judicial support for Erdoğan.
During the ceremony prosecutors and judges stood up and applauded Erdoğan when he entered the hall and when he finished his address.
Erdoğan’s government is accused of taking the judiciary under its absolute control and punishing dissenting judicial members either by expelling or arresting them.
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Exiled Turkish lawyers hold “alternative” judicial ceremony in Berlin
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/the-independence-of-judges-and-the-judiciary-under-threat
Turkish Bar Associations boycott new judicial year opening at presidential palace (updated)
New Report: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers in Turkey
https://ahvalnews.com/arrested-lawyers/turkey-has-sentenced-321-lawyers-2000-years-jail-2016-report
Turkey has prosecuted some 1,500 lawyers, arrested 599 since failed coup: report
Tagged: Arrested Lawyers, Council of Europe, Turkey
IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers 
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