Criminal law
Indictments accepted against massive graft probes' judge and prosecutors
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.
My judge, your judge, my prosecutor, your prosecutor
The files of active and formerly active judges and prosecutors in several provinces have been examined for some time, their relationships being scrutinized. This research is to determine, ?Is that judge from us? Is this prosecutor a parallel?? This research somehow blows up in Istanbul, exploding the rule of law with it.
An eight-letter word that starts with a 'g'
At this pace of events (so probably in a couple of decades), several Turkish ambassadors across the world will have to take forced spring vacations in Ankara. April 2015 was fairly smooth, with only two ambassadors (in Vatican City and Vienna) recalled ? they probably bought return tickets, not one-way.
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Austria, Germany, France and Russia join the Vatican in plot against Turkey
By calling the Armenian massacre during World War I genocide, the Vatican has joined the plot against Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu claimed. Austria, Russia, Germany, the U.S. and many others have followed suit and joined the Vatican in the plot against Turkey.
Russia knows genocide well, Turkey fires back
Turkey said on April 24 that it rejected and condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin calling the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a "genocide."
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Ankara in no rush to respond to 'genocide' comment by Russia, France
Turkey, which recently recalled two of its ambassadors after their host countries labeled the killings of Ottoman Armenians as ?genocide,? has signalled that it will not rush to take a similar measure against Russia and France.
The economics of genocide
You may have thought about reparation payments after seeing my title. Those made by Germany have reached $100 billion. But that?s not what I have in mind. After all, I just cannot value human life.
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Bulgaria MPs Reschedule Agenda before Armenian 'Genocide' Vote
Lawmakers in Bulgaria's Parliament have moved to change the agenda of their vote on Friday, when they are to adopt a stance on the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
With a number of states describing the events as "genocide" and Turkey disputing this, the Bulgarian legislature was to work on a position.
Turkish PM says deportation is crime against humanity
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he has already highlighted that deportation is a crime against humanity, less than a day earlier his former interior minister, Efkan Ala, said that what the Ottoman Empire did to the Armenians a century ago was not "genocide" but deportation.
What do Ceara, New South Wales and Tehran have in common?
Simple: They are regional administrations that have recognized the Armenian genocide.