Supreme Court

Turkey’s top court has delivered a landmark ruling, deciding that the rights of a majority of the convicted suspects in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case have been violated, thus paving the way for a retrial.

An internal police inquiry has been launched into the actions of a riot officer accused of hitting a woman protesting her dismissal from the Greek Finance Ministry's cleaning staff on Thursday.

The unnamed officer was allegedly wearing a lined glove that is not standard police issue when he pushed one of the protesting cleaning women to the ground.

The Supreme Court has put on hold the ruling by a lower court ordering the Greek Finance Ministry to rehire about 400 sacked cleaners.

The ministry had sought a temporary suspension of last month’s First Instance Court decision, which ruled that the government was wrong to dismiss the workers as part of public sector reforms.

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned an aggravated life sentence given to sociologist Pınar Selek, who was convicted for allegedly being involved in the bombing of Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar in 1998.

The Supreme Court is expected to decide by Thursday whether the Finance Ministry will be able to temporarily ignore a ruling from a lower court ordering it to rehire some 400 sacked cleaners.

The ministry is seeking a temporary suspension of last month’s First Instance Court decision, which ruled that the government was wrong to dismiss the workers as part of public sector reforms.

Israel's parliament on June 10 elected Reuven Rivlin, a far-right member of the ruling Likud party, to be the nation's 10th president when Shimon Peres steps down next month.

MP Sonia Maria Draghici has been referred to the court by prosecutors with the Supreme Court of Justice and Cassation for conflict of interest.

I will explain the two verdicts on the telephone eavesdropping on the General Assembly of Criminal Matters of the Supreme Court of Appeals. These decisions are extremely important in terms of fighting corruption. 

BELGRADE - Tatjana Babic, director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, stated on Thursday that in 2013 the Agency was nearly 10 times more active in the sphere of control of property and incomes of public officials compared to the previous period, and announced that an initiative for the adoption of a new law on the Agency will be submitted by the end of June.

An Istanbul court upheld June 5 a previous verdict sentencing a police officer to four years in prison for “involuntary manslaughter” in the fatal shooting of Nigerian refugee Festus Okey.