The European Bars Federation (FBE) Will Closely Watch the Trial of 7 January 2014 Against Lawyers of the Istanbul Bar Association
Ten members of the Board the Istanbul Bar are being charged with attempting to influence the members of judiciary and, if found guilty, may face imprisonment for up to 4 years. The facts behind this trial are that the Istanbul Bar intervened during a famous process, the Bayloz case, in April 2012 when some Turkish lawyers could no more exercise their constitutional duty to defend their clients. This kind of intervention of the Bar is allowed by the Turkish Law on Attorneyship, No. 1136.
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