Court of Appeals

The members of Türkiye's highest administrative court, the Council of State, have reelected the incumbent president, Zeki Yiğit, for a new four-year term with 62 votes.

Yiğit, whose term of office that began in May 2020 was due to expire, competed against three other candidates in the elections held on April 24.

New York's highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shock reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement.

The Court of Appeals on April 15 once again failed to elect a new president in the 16th round of the election that has been underway since the end of March, finding itself in a deadlock.

The Court of Appeals found itself in a deadlock on March 26 as five rounds of voting have failed to produce a clear winner in the critical election to determine its new head.

The decision to postpone the election came after a two-day voting process, where neither of the five candidates managed to secure an absolute majority.

The Court of Appeals will reconvene for a critical election today to determine its new head after three rounds of voting failed to produce a clear winner.

The decision to defer the election came after yesterday's initial three rounds failed to produce a candidate with an absolute majority.

The former Attica regional governor, Rena Dourou, will not face trial before the five-member Court of Appeals for her alleged involvement in the deadly floods that struck Mandra, west Attica, in 2017. This decision came after the court ruled that the prosecution's appeal against her acquittal by the trial court was time-barred.

The long-awaited conclusion of a retrial stemming from the 2007 plane crash in Isparta has finally been reached, as the top appeals court's criminal chamber approved the penalties for airline officials involved in the incident.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced plans to address what he described as a "problem" within the country's judiciary, proposing either a new constitution or legal amendments to resolve ongoing disputes between key judicial institutions.

Türkiye's top court has announced that it will delay its decision on the statute of limitations regarding the case related to the tragic arson attack on the Madımak Hotel in Sivas in 1993, following the submission of additional reports.

The state's proposal to place offshore wind farms off Crete has united the island's hoteliers in support of the preservation of the natural and manmade landscape.