İrfan Fidan

President of the Constitutional Court Zühtü Arslan has been re-elected as the head of Türkiye's highest court by garnering the votes of eight judges out of 15.

Arslan will continue his job as the president for one year as his entire tenure as the member of the Constitutional Court will be terminated in 2024.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has lashed out at Supreme Court head İrfan Fidan for running for a seat on the Constitutional Court.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader has questioned the capacity of the government in rolling out reforms and said it will fail to accomplish them.

Turkey's Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Nov. 27 elected 11 new members to the country's Supreme Court.

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has denied reports claiming that it received a note from the prosecutor's office asking it for the reason behind phone calls by two Gülenist figures involved in the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) trucks case. 

However, the Istanbul chief public prosecutor has stated that the embassy received the information request as of the afternoon of July 5.

An Istanbul prosecutor has sought three life sentences each for a total of 55 suspects in a new indictment regarding a case into trucks belonging to Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT). 

An Istanbul prosecutor sought two aggravated life sentences each for 13 suspects including popular Turkish singer Atilla Taş and journalists Murat Aksoy and Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu over their alleged involvement in the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, in a fresh indictment submitted to court on June 6, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on May 19 said members of the judiciary in Turkey should be free of pressure from the government, urging them to "stop being the stick of the political authority" in the country. 

Police conducted an operation targeting an executive of critical daily Sözcü and a number of other staff members, the Istanbul Chief Public prosecutor stated on May 19, after detention warrants were issued for four of the newspaper's staff members in the early hours of the morning.

Police on May 19 conducted an operation targeting an executive of critical daily Sözcü and a number of other staff members, the Istanbul Chief Public prosecutor has stated.   

Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor İrfan Fidan told the Doğan News Agency that the operation only targeted executives of the daily, including its license holder Burak Akbay.