Legal professions

Attention in Turkey will now focus on the Sept. 12 elections for members of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), which oversees appointments and dismissals and conducts investigations in the judiciary.

Members of Turkey’s top judiciary body, the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), will change with an election in October when the current members’ term in office expires.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) has decided on the timetable of the elections, which will officially be announced in the Official Gazette on Aug. 26.

All the national organisations of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) are asking the Ombudsman to notify the Constitutional Court of Romania immediately abut Government Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 49 /2014, after PDL did so on July 4.

A second operation was launched early Aug. 5 against police as part of the “illegal wiretapping” probe in 14 provinces across Turkey.

Police raided colleagues’ residences at a number addresses around Istanbul, daily Hürriyet has learned. The list of detentions include 33 police officers according to initial information.

I have a request for my readers today. I will publish an extract from my piece dated June 30 titled, “On who’s side is justice?” It will be a repetition, but please read on.

Bulgaria's Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said he received plenty of complaints from people whose salaries were blocked in the troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB). 

“I can't help them,” Penchev told the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR). “Those are the risks of the market economy. We don't know what's the situation and we cannot find a solution.”

A council of appeals court judges on Thursday rejected the recommendation of a public prosecutor and ordered a new investigation into allegations that Greece’s 2009 public deficit figure was manipulated to pave the way for an international bailout.

Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos is to be placed under house arrest until a higher judicial body decides on his fate.

On Wednesday Michos appeared before magistrates probing the neofascist party's alleged criminal activities to answer charges of illegal weapons possession and drug possession.

By Yiouli Eptakiki

Golden Dawn MP Eleni Zaroulia, the wife of detained party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, was put under house arrest on Wednesday following a disagreement between the two magistrates leading an investigation into GD and a prosecutor overseeing the probe about her fate pending trial on charges of running a criminal organization.