Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan has slammed a prosecutor's decision to extend the detention period for the party's lawyer, Celal Çelik, who had been in detention for over 10 days as part of the investigation into the Gülen network.

Celal Çelik, the official lawyer of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, was detained in Ankara as a part of an investigation into the Gülen network.

Sabri Çelebi went on the streets with a machete during the Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul in 2013 and attacked protesters. He injured a woman by kicking her and a policeman from his hand. He was caught but released immediately afterwards. He went abroad. The ruling for his release was rejected.

Turkey's Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has reshuffled the districts where 154 judges will be working, in accordance with an announcement released on its website on July 13.

The written notices regarding the reassignments are set to be sent to judges by the end of July 14, the announcement said. 

Turkey has arrested a total of 50,510 people accused of having links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have been behind the July 2016 failed coup attempt, the Justice Ministry said on July 13.

Some 4,000 judges and prosecutors have been dismissed as part of a probe against the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) since the July 15, 2016, coup attempt, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said May 26.

"More than 4,000 judges and prosecutors were removed from the profession due to membership, contact or affiliation with FETÖ in the Turkish judiciary," Bozdağ said.

A former Ankara judge who controversially ordered the release of Adil Öksüz, one of the prime suspects in the July 2016 coup attempt, has confessed to being a follower of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, according to a news report in daily Habertürk on May 25. 

A lawyer for the Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP) leader and two lawyers who are members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been listed as candidates for the revamped Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK). 

Turkey's highest judicial regulatory body dismissed another 107 judges and prosecutors on May 5 over their alleged links to U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of masterminding the July 2016 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Why the word "supreme" was removed from the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) in the constitutional amendments, I could not receive an answer from anybody.

Could it be a reflection of the ruling party's mentality of regarding only the "elected" as superior? If so, then we have to start worrying.