content tagged with Statutory Decrees

Interior Ministry enforces reinstatement verdicts for dismissed police chiefs

Interior Ministry enforces reinstatement verdicts for dismissed police chiefs

Following the replacement of the minister, the ministry has started implementing court rulings.

Academics for Peace: We reject your rejection

6TH ANNIVERSARY

Academics for Peace: We reject your rejection

On the 6th anniversary of their declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”, Academics for Peace have addressed the State of Emergency Commission, which rejects their requests for reinstatement: “We reject your rejection.”

11 January 2022

Twenty-one teachers dismissed over 'terror ties' despite being acquitted

Twenty-one teachers dismissed over 'terror ties' despite being acquitted

The teachers in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır were detained last year in an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress.

1 December 2021

2 critical rulings about people discharged by Statutory Decrees

2 critical rulings about people discharged by Statutory Decrees

The Constitutional Court has found the criteria of “membership” and “affiliation” for being discharged from public service against the Constitution. Discharged by a Statutory Decree, Kocaoğlu is also back in public service following a court ruling.

Local journalists acquitted of terrorism but their TV channel is gone ‘forever’

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Local journalists acquitted of terrorism but their TV channel is gone ‘forever’

About four-and-a-half years after the closure of Van TV because of its alleged “terrorist connections,” all but one defendant in the trial of its employees and owners were acquitted of “terrorist propaganda.”

8 February 2021 Volga Kuşçuoğlu

Constitutional Court: Dismissed public officials can work as an attorney

Constitutional Court: Dismissed public officials can work as an attorney

Local courts had canceled two people's registration at bar associations on the ground that they had been previously dismissed from public service by statutory decrees.

10 September 2020

Mehmet Altan addresses an open letter to ECtHR President

Mehmet Altan addresses an open letter to ECtHR President

Ahead of his visit to Turkey, Altan has penned an open letter to ECtHR President Spano, who is expected to be given an honorary doctorate: “Those who will give you an honorary doctorate are the very people who dismissed me and many other academics.”

District Governor Ignores Rulings of Seven Courts

BAKIRKÖY RESISTANCE TURNS THREE YEARS OLD

District Governor Ignores Rulings of Seven Courts

A complaint has been filed against Bakırköy District Governor, who banned two teachers' demonstrations despite court rulings.

20 February 2020 Ayça Söylemez

‘Elected Mayors Discharged by Statutory Decrees Won’t Be Given Certificates of Election’

SUPREME ELECTION COUNCIL HAS RULED:

‘Elected Mayors Discharged by Statutory Decrees Won’t Be Given Certificates of Election’

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has ruled that elected mayors who were previously discharged by Statutory Decrees shall not be given their certificates of election. Accordingly, the certificates will be granted to the candidates who come second.