Supreme Court

It is very common for drivers in Turkey to get caught on radar either during intercity travel or within cities.

Each time somebody gets caught, the phrase is the common one, “It was impossible to notice the radar. Why would they choose to place it there?!”

The Supreme Court of the United States has confirmed the two life sentences handed out to Russian citizen Natalia Wilson.

Wilson is known in Bulgaria as the murderer of Slavka Naydenova, the sister of notorious businessman Iliya Pavlov (killed in 2003).

President Abdullah Gül is set to begin a tour of state institutions to bid farewell, as his mandate will expire Aug. 28.

Uganda's constitutional court on Aug. 1 overturned tough new anti-gay laws that had been branded draconian by rights groups, saying they  had been wrongly passed by parliament.

The law is "null and void," the presiding judge told the court, saying the process had contravened the constitution, as it has been passed in parliament in December without the necessary quorum of lawmakers.

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

The Supreme Court is to review the decision by judges in Patra to acquit two of the four men charged over the shooting of 28 migrant workers at a strawberry farm in Nea Manolada last year.

Deputy Supreme Court Prosecutor Giorgos Koliocostas resigned yesterday citing personal reasons.

Koliocostas was due to reach retirement in June 2015. He had served at the Supreme Court since 2009 and had joined the judiciary in 1978.

Members of the armed forces and emergency services look set to take legal action to have their wages restored to pre-2012 levels after the government suggested it would not raise their pay to the same standard.

Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou should stand trial for allegedly tampering with the Lagarde list of depositors, Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Vassilis Pliotas recommended to the judicial council that will decide the politician’s fate.

The trial into the murder of Abdullah Cömert, who died during last year’s Gezi protests in the southern city of Antakya, has been relocated to the Aegean city of Balıkesir, some 1,300 kilometers away, due to “security” concerns.