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A Turkish judge has taken full responsibility in a pornography case while acquitting the investigation?s suspects after the court failed to find an ?expert on artificial vaginas.?

An advisory body of the Council of Europe (CoE) has expressed grave concerns about the suspension and arrest of two Turkish judges allegedly linked to the Gülen movement, in a statement issued after letters were sent to it by the two judges and complaints were sent by others. 

We are right in the middle of a scandal that would never ever occur in a country under the rule of law.

The Criminal Court of Peace judges who are authorized to decide on arrests have been rejected; it is not definite which authority is to decide on this demand. 

As soon as the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) election manifesto was released, people from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), from the president to the prime minister, said every day that these pledges would sink the economy.

Three judges who ordered the release of 79 suspects charged with alleged links to the "parallel state" of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen were suspended from duty on April 27 for "causing chaos within the judiciary."

A Turkish court has ordered the release of 75 policemen and a media manager who were accused of belonging to ?the parallel state? of the government?s ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gülen, a U.S. based cleric, but a judge reversed the decision late April 25 as a chief prosecutor also intervened.

A Turkish court has ordered the release of 75 policemen and a media manager who were accused of belonging to ?the parallel state? of the government?s ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gülen, a U.S. based cleric, but a judge reversed the decision late April 25 as a chief prosecutor also intervened.

Model and former Miss Turkey Merve Büyüksaraç is facing up to two years in prison for social media posts that prosecutors claim ?insult? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

An indictment on a traffic accident in which a Lebanese-American reporter was killed near Turkey’s border with Syria has been completed, with the prosecutor demanding the driver of a heavy vehicle be sentenced to between two to six years in prison on manslaughter charges.