Turkish government has launched an investigation into a German prosecutor and financial support given by the European Association of Judges (EAJ) to the family of Turkish judge Mesut Orta who was jailed over his alleged links to the Gülen movement.
According to a report by blog titled Free Judges, Turkish judge Mesut Orta, about whom a detention warrant was issued but he did not surrender due to arbitrary unlawfulnesses in Turkey, applied for financial support especially for his family when he remained at large, making contact with the EAJ via e-mail. The correspondences as to the financial support given by EAJ were revealed from the computer records of judge Orta, seized when he was detained.
Accordingly, it was found out that 1300 euro was transferred to the bank account of Judge Orta’s wife by means of two separate transactions by Stuttgart prosecutor P.S. who is a member of EAJ as well. The media outlets under the control of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan alleged that German prosecutor provided help for judge Orta so that he was able to hide out.
Judge Orta, held under pre-trial detention arbitrarily over terrorism charges, is being accused this time of the financial support he took from the EAJ. According to the reports taking place in press, beside judge Orta, EAJ and Stutgart prosecutor P.S., leading to this fund transfer, have been also included into this investigation.
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 2,431 judges and prosecutors and dismissed 4,424 others since a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016, a Constitutional Court general assembly ruling revealed on early August 2017.
The report also said thousands of judges and prosecutors in Turkey dismissed or arrested unduly. Their families left behind, on the other side, were forced to evacuate the allocated apartments they had resided, all their assests were seized and the bank accounts were blocked. In the face of such a tragedic situation, the EAJ decided to give financial support for their colleagues and their families doomed to hunger in Turkey.
Launching an investigation into foreign lawyers in Turkey is not limited to this incidence. Previously, upon a case was filed against the controversial Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab in USA for giving so much astronomic bribery to Erdoğan and his cabinet members for the violation of Iran sanctions, Turkish prosecutors who are staunch supporter of Erdoğan launched investigation into federal prosecutors of US over charges of “giving support to the armed terror organisation.”
The report has also stated that the judges and prosecutors of the judiciary under the control of Erdoğan have been continuing to give a hundred thousands of opponents especially their colleagues so much hard times and similar tragedies over alogical and baseless grounds.
The blog has also given information about judge Mesut Orta. According to the report, beginning to experience judicial task as a judge in criminal law, jugde Mesut Orta was then appointed to the Data Processing Department of Justice Ministry as a rapporteur judge due to graduating from computer programming beside getting a degree of law.
Then in 2011, he was appointed to head of the department installing and developing the software of UYAP (Turkish e-justice system), awarded by many international institutions including United Nations. Getting PhD degree in information technologies and having books published in this field, judge Orta had given lectures in universities and Turkish Justice Academy.
Judge Orta had rather hide than surrendering because of the reason that thousands of his colleagues were arrested arbitrarily for allegedly having a membership in terror organisation since the controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016. However, he was caught and detained upon a detection of his house by police officers he had been hiding in Diyarbakır.
The report said police battered him and his colleagues he resided together when raided his house. The battery evidences were recorded in doctor reports in a hospital where the judges were referred. Orta and his colleagues, battered, insulted and threatened, complained about the police officers but the prosecutor’s office declared decision of non-prosecution. However, the prosecutor’s office seeks 22,5 years jail sentence for judge Orta for allegedly managing an armed terror organisation under the pretex of his senior office in Turkish Justice Ministry.
A comprehensive report titled “Turkey’s descent into arbitrariness: The end of rule of law” published by SCF in April 2017 provides detailed information on how the rule of law has lost meaning in the Turkish context, confirming the effective collapse of all domestic judicial and administrative remedies available for Turkish citizens who lodge complaints for rights violations.
It lists many cases showing the ways in which Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan and his associates in the government manipulate the judiciary through loyalists and partisans. An unprecedented intimidation campaign against independent judges and prosecutors including unlawful arrests and arbitrary assets seizures was pursued by political authorities
Turkey survived a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement.
Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.
Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 judges, teachers, police and civil servants since July 15. On December 13, 2017 the Justice Ministry announced that 169,013 people have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since the failed coup.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced on April 18, 2018 that the Turkish government had jailed 77,081 people between July 15, 2016 and April 11, 2018 over alleged links to the Gülen movement.
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