Ministry of Justice

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic has signed the consent to the extradition of Turkish Kurd Cevdet Ayaz to Turkey pursuant to a final decision by a court that found that all conditions for his extradition had been met, as well as pursuant to a final decision by the Interior Ministry's Commission on Asylum to reject his asylum request, Tanjug has been told by the Ministry of Jus

Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül has said he will tell his U.S. counterpart Jeff Sessions that the New York trial of former Halkbank deputy general manager Hakan Atilla, charged with helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions, is “not legal and should be ended.”

Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül said on Nov. 23 that Turkey has sent to the U.S. authorities a total of seven extradition demands and one temporary arrest warrant for the Pennsylvania-based Fethullah Gülen, accused of masterminding the July 2016 coup attempt.

The European Commission's latest reports on Bulgaria and Romania under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, CVM - which monitors their progress on judicial reform and corruption - contain good and bad news for both countries.

Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül and United States Attorney General Jeff Session spoke on the phone late Nov. 7, ahead of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s scheduled meeting with Vice President Mike Pence on Nov. 9 in Washington D.C.

The associations representing notaries in Athens, Piraeus and the islands of the Aegean and the Dodecanese on Monday announced they will not be conducting any property auctions until December 31.

Registration fees for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will decrease from 2 to 4 times, depending on the type of entry and the way in which applications are submitted, according to a draft of the Ministry of Justice, reports sega. 

From January 1, they will be registered with the Registry Agency and not with the court as it is now.

An expert working group on Friday submitted to the Justice Ministry a detailed study regarding ways to integrate former prisoners into the labor market.

The group, which was formed in 2015 at the behest of the ministry, included in its report proposals for the induction of former prisoners into specific professions.

The number of convicts on probation reached 353,749 as of July 31, as the authorities try to open up space in prisons for the rising number of jailed Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) suspects, according to figures released by the Justice Ministry.

Estonian Minister of Justice Urmas Reinsalu  responded to his Greek counterpart, Stavros Kontonis following the uproar caused by the decision by Greece to not participate in the recent European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism in Estonia.