-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 4 months ago
Military members must be tried in civilian courts if [their crimes] involve social and political controversies. This new law passed by Parliament is perfect,” said Murat Kurtulmuş, 37, a self-employed man from the coastal town of Samsun. “The...
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 4 months ago
Speaking about a recent change to the Code on Criminal Procedure (CMK) that makes it possible for military members to appear before the civilian judiciary, Birgün said the change was important for Turkey's democratization process. “It would be...
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 4 months ago
The Young Civilians protested the release of Col. Çiçek yesterday by the 14th Hig Criminal Court upon an appeal by his lawyer shortly after he had been arrested, claiming it was an incredibly short time to evaluate all the files in his case.
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 4 months ago
whose arrest came late on Tuesday following the Military Prosecutors' Office's judgment last week that there was no evidence implicating the colonel -- was released pending trial on Wednesday afternoon by the İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court, a...
-
News Source: Press TV
| 4 months ago
Colonel Dursun Cicek was set free late Wednesday from a military detention center in Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul, following an appeal by his lawyer. The senior military officer was arrested late Tuesday following the publication of a document in...
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 4 months ago
Extraordinary developments occurred in a court that decided to arrest colonel Dursun Çiçek on charges of being a member of an illegal organization. A new judge was appointed to the 14th Criminal Court that would debate the objection of Çiçek's...
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 4 months ago
Colonel Dursun Çiçek was arrested late on Tuesday, amid tension between the AK Party government and the secularist military after a newspaper reported a military plot to discredit the AK Party through a media campaign. Çiçek was arrested for...
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 5 months ago
After a copy of the suspected military plan was published by the Taraf daily earlier this month, some circles claimed that the document, which was found in the office of Serdar Öztürk, a suspect in the case against Ergenekon, a shadowy crime...
-
News Source: Zaman.com
| 5 months ago
Dursun Çiçek, whose name appears on the document allegedly prepared by the military, which is titled the “Action Plan to Fight Reactionaryism,” was arrested by a civil court on Tuesday. But Col. Çiçek released after an appeal by his lawyers.