Muammer Akka

A former judge, who was connected to Turkey?s biggest ever corruption case in December 2013, was arrested Sept. 15 after a second arrest warrant was issued in his name. 

A controversial prosecutor who led probes into alleged coup attempts has fled to Armenia with a colleague after an arrest warrant was issued regarding both judicial figures, the governor of Artvin province has announced. 

A controversial prosecutor who led probes into alleged coup attempts has fled to Georgia with a colleague after an arrest warrant has been issued on both judiciary figures for attempting to overthrow the Turkish government with the corruption investigations of 2013.

A controversial prosecutor who led probes into alleged coup attempts will be put on trial for attempting to overthrow the Turkish government with the corruption investigations of 2013.

A Turkish court has accepted an indictment which charged a prosecutor and a judge in a landmark corruption investigation which targeted then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's son and scores of businessman in 2013.

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has expressed concerns over "serious interference with the independence of the judiciary in Turkey" which it had found to be apparent in several cases, referring to immediate and direct actions Turkey's High Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) took against judges and prosecutors on account of their decisions.

Two prosecutors and a judge who initiated Turkey's biggest corruption investigation will be tried in the Supreme Court of Appeals as an Istanbul court decided on June 15 to send their indictments to the top court.

The Bak?rköy 16th Court of Serious crimes has accepted an indictment against prosecutors Celal Kara and Muammer Akka?, who oversaw two massive corruption probes, on charges of ?malpractice,? along with an indictment of ?negligence? against judge Süleyman Karaçöl, who presided over one of the probe cases.

An Istanbul Public Prosecutor Office has prepared an indictment for Celal Kara, one of the prosecutors involved in the quashed graft investigations of December 2013, demanding that he be sentenced up to three years on misconduct charges.

Turkey's highest judicial board has opened the way for the trial of two prosecutors and one judge responsible for the massive corruption probe of December 2013.

The 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Judges and Prosecutors Board (HSYK) gave permission for the trial of prosecutors Celal Kara and Muammer Akka? and judge Süleyman Karaçöl.