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TURKEY: 7 people, including 4 lawyers, imprisoned in Istanbul after searching their offices<\/h2>\n

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Following an operation carried out by the Anti-Terror Direction, seven people, including four lawyers (Ay\u015feg\u00fcl \u00c7a\u011fatay, Nadide \u00d6zdemir, G\u00f6rkem A\u011fdede and Ebru Timtik) were arrested in the early morning on June 20th, at the offices of the People\u2019s Law Office (Halk\u0131n Hukuk B\u00fcrosu, HHB) and placed in police custody in Istanbul. The firm\u2019s secretary (G\u00fclser Sar\u0131g\u00fcl), a relative of one of the lawyers (\u00d6zhan Aslan), as well as a client (Kamile Kay\u0131r) are also in police custody.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor has already decided to limit access to the file for the applicants and their lawyers, while many documents and computer tools have been seized on the premises of the HHB, which has been the subject of 4 searches in less than two years.<\/p>\n

This search is part of a growing crackdown on lawyers in Turkey, including members of the HHB and\/or the Progressive Lawyers Association (\u00c7HD), who are regularly arrested and intimidated. On March 20th,\u00a0the 37th Criminal Chamber of the Istanbul Court sentenced 18 of these lawyers to heavy prison terms of up to 18 years for alleged membership of the Revolutionary Front Party for the Liberation of the People (DHKP-C), an organisation placed on the \u201cterrorist\u201d list of the Turkish Ministry of the Interior.<\/p>\n

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The OIAD<\/strong>\u00a0expresses its deep concern and calls on all lawyers and bar associations to remain vigilant as to the fate of lawyers who are members of the HHB.<\/p>\n

The OIAD<\/strong>\u00a0expresses its full support for all lawyers in Turkey who are subjected to repression by the regime as a result of the legitimate exercise of their profession or their positions in the public debate.<\/p>\n

The OIAD<\/strong>\u00a0urges the Turkish authorities to comply with the\u00a0Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers<\/a>\u00a0(1990), according to which the public authorities must ensure \u201cthat lawyers (\u2026) are able to carry out all their professional duties without hindrance, intimidation, harassment or undue interference\u201d (Principle No. 18).<\/p>\n

The OIAD<\/strong>\u00a0also reminds the Turkish authorities that any person arrested or detained must be \u201cpromptly informed by the competent authority of his right to be assisted by a lawyer of his choice\u201d (Principle No. 5) and must be able to \u201ccommunicate promptly with a lawyer\u201d (Principle No. 7).<\/p>\n

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Who are we?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger was created by the National Bar Council (France),\u00a0 the\u00a0 Paris\u00a0 Bar\u00a0 (France),\u00a0 the\u00a0 Consejo\u00a0 General\u00a0 de\u00a0 la\u00a0 Abogac\u00eda\u00a0 Espanola\u00a0 (Spain),\u00a0 and the Consiglio\u00a0 Nazionale\u00a0 Forense\u00a0 (Italy).\u00a0 Its\u00a0 goal\u00a0 is\u00a0 to\u00a0 conduct\u00a0 a\u00a0 constant\u00a0 monitoring\u00a0 on lawyers\u00a0 facing\u00a0 threats\u00a0 around\u00a0 the\u00a0 world\u00a0 because\u00a0 they lawfully practice their\u00a0 profession\u00a0 and to\u00a0 provide assistance to attorneys whose lives, freedom or practice are threatened.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"listing_category":[61],"event_category":[],"service_category":[],"rental_category":[],"classifieds_category":[],"listing_feature":[],"region":[79,1915],"class_list":["post-10407","listing","type-listing","status-publish","hentry","listing_category-imprisoned","region-europe","region-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/10407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21696,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/10407\/revisions\/21696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_category?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"service_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service_category?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"rental_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rental_category?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"classifieds_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/classifieds_category?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"listing_feature","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_feature?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}