Constitutional Court

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is accused of being involved in a corruption case by granting state tenders to a family friend/businessman in road building contracts. During the trial in Buenos Aires, the federal judge decided to freeze Kirchner's assets worth $633 million.

Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska is pictured on an election poster calling for votes for a referendum on their Statehood Day in Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

BELGRADE - In case Pristina fails to form the Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija on its own, the Serbs have the full legitimacy and legality to do so, the chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said Tuesday.

Lawyers for daily Cumhuriyet have filed separate, individual applications to the Constitutional Court on behalf of 10 journalists and managers who have been under arrest on terror charges in Istanbul's Silivri prison for 59 days, the daily reported on Dec. 28.

Arrested Author Aslı Erdoğan and lingiust Necmiye Alpay, meanwhile, will appear before judge for the first time. 

Analysists in Albania believe the law on the re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors or so-called vetting law will result in a lot of resignations among the around 800 justice officials.

Albania's Constitutional court on Thursday opened the way towards the vetting of around 800 judges and prosecutors in terms of their professional ability, moral integrity, and level of independence from organised crime, corruption, and political officials after dismissing objections to the new "vetting law'.

The Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals has approved a verdict against two police officers who were found guilty of killing 19-year-old Gezi protester Ali İsmail Korkmaz. 

Officers Mevlüt Saldoğan and Yalçın Akbulut, who were both convicted to 10 years and 10 months in jail, will serve prison terms that were handed down by a Kayseri court after the case was re-evaluated. 

Some 60,000 individual applications have been made to Turkey's Constitutional Court since the July 15 coup attempt, the court's president, Zühtü Arslan, said Dec. 19.  

The foundations for the new Constitution were laid already in 1998, with what is termed the writers' constitution, a document drawn up under the leadership of the Slovenian Writers' Association.

The initiative was picked up by the DEMOS coalition of parties, which presented in March 1990 its own version which drew strongly on the writers' document.

A new constitutional court ruling in Bosnia and Herzegovina about election laws could prove difficult to implement - but, if it is not implemented, could obstruct the formation of a new government in 2018, experts said.