Justice Ministry

The four new members of Turkey’s Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), who were not elected but appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have sparked fresh controversy on the crucial judicial body’ objectivity.

Greek courts are to stop conducting hearings, which include witness questioning, for civil cases, according to plans drawn up by the Justice Ministry.

The shooting suspect of a Danish writer was released in Turkey more than two months before the reported prisoner swap with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Hürriyet has learned.

The Justice Ministry has cleared the path for investigations into nine civil servants, including the former police chief of Istanbul Celalettin Cerrah, who are accused of negligence in the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007.

BELGRADE - Head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta sent an open letter to Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on friday asking that the government ban the clearance of the ruins of Serb-owned buildings without consent from their owners.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government on Thursday suspended the Bar Association of Serbia instructions ordering lawyers to go on strike under threat of disciplinary action or being banned from legal practice, which will enable all lawyers who are willing to go back to work to do so on Friday without the fear of losing their licences.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola selakovic called on the Bar Association of Serbia (AKS) to invalidate the Ordinance according to which lawyers are obliged to go on strike on the threat of disciplinary sanctions and bar chamber exclusion, because the documents constitutes violation of the Serbian Constitution and a number of other laws.

Turkish Chief Prosecutor Hasan Erbil met his Bulgarian counterpart Sotir Tsatsarov on Thursday, officials say.

The two delivered presentations on the structures of their respective institutions and discussed prospects for cooperation.

Erbil, who is on a three-day visit Bulgaria at the invitation of Tsatsatov, also met Deputy PM and Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Justice has sent the European Commission the first draft action plan for the talks on Chapter 23 of the Accession Talks, which refers to the judiciary, battler against corruption and basic rights, Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Thursday.

The Chamber of Deputies rejected the simple motion of censure headed 'PSD [ruling Social Democratic Party] is allergic to justice', initiated by the Liberal and Democrat Liberal deputies.

The Tuesday's vote was 217 against the motion, 89 in favour of it, and four abstentions.