Punishments

The detention of the Doğan Group's chief judicial adviser, along with a former chief executive officer of the holding, is an act of intimidation by the political power, the Istanbul Bar Association said in a written statement on Jan. 6. 

"This detention is an intimidation," it said, adding that the government was seeking to create its own narrative during the current period.

Chief appeals prosecutor Antonis Liogas on Monday ordered a preliminary investigation into the disappearance from the police's radar of a woman under house arrest who had been fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet as she was considered a flight risk.

Police in Istanbul detained roughly 30 foreigners late on Nov. 20 as part of ongoing efforts to apprehend illegal migrants who escaped a deportation center, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

While the vast majority of properties have been returned or their owners compensated, several major cases are still pending.

On Wednesday, the European Commission decided not to stop the funds for Spain and Portugal next year, in spite of the fact that the two countries are in violation of the budget rules of the EU, reported Reuters.

An Athens court handed life terms Tuesday to 27-year-old Stanislav Bakardjev and his 30-year-old codefendant, Nazif Ahmedov for the 2015 murder and mutilation of 4-year-old Ani.

The girl's mother, 25-year-old Dimitrina Borisova, was found guilty of exposing the child to danger. She was given a six-year suspended sentence and granted conditional release.

A court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has lifted the legal probation on a released sexual abuse suspect teacher, while also adjourning his trial, in a case in which he faces 72 years in prison for alleged offenses against six female students. 

A court in Istanbul has ordered the release on probation of a sexual offender who was sentenced to 16 years and 10 months imprisonment for assaulting a minor on the grounds that the article concerning the crime has been annulled by Turkey's top court but not yet replaced by a new law.

About 20,000 migrants have passed through the Sofia Busmantsi Detention Centre. The situation is beyond extreme. Given a capacity of 940 migrants, there are now 1,631 persons or an occupancy rate of 174% . There are 395 persons registered outside the Detention Centre living at their own expense.

"If guilty, she or he should be on trial under arrest."

If she or he is guilty then she or he is not on trial because if it can be said of that person that she or he is guilty, then it means the trial has already ended. There is already a sentence and that person should be put in a prison cell for serving jail time, not in prison cell for those under detention.