{"id":17132,"date":"2024-02-08T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/turquie-la-communaute-juridique-internationale-condamne-la-detention-de-quatre-avocats-du-chd-et-la-perquisition-de-leurs-bureaux\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T09:18:43","slug":"turkey-the-international-legal-community-condemns-the-detention-of-four-chd-lawyers-and-the-raid-on-their-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/turkey-the-international-legal-community-condemns-the-detention-of-four-chd-lawyers-and-the-raid-on-their-office\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY: THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL COMMUNITY CONDEMNS THE DETENTION OF FOUR \u00c7HD LAWYERS AND THE RAID ON THEIR OFFICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The OIAD, together with the undersigned organisations, condemns the detention of lawyers Didem Baydar \u00dcnsal, Berrak \u00c7a\u011flar, Seda \u015earald\u0131 and Bet\u00fcl Vang\u00f6l\u00fc Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131, members of the Progressive Lawyers Association (\u00c7HD), following a raid on their office in Istanbul on February 6, 2024.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>On February 6, 2024, following an armed attack on the largest court building (\u00c7a\u011flayan Courthouse) in Istanbul, two assailants were shot dead by the police. According to police sources, the attackers were members of the Revolutionary People\u2019s Liberation Party\/Front (DHKP\/C).<\/p>\n

Following this attack, several offices of various organisations were raided and ransacked by police forces in Istanbul. Among them is the People\u2019s Law Office<\/strong>, where four lawyers, members of \u00c7HD, were detained. Didem Baydar \u00dcnsal, Berrak \u00c7a\u011flar, Seda \u015earald\u0131 and Bet\u00fcl Vang\u00f6l\u00fc Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131<\/strong> have since remained in custody in Vatan Police Headquarters awaiting to be transferred to the courthouse.<\/p>\n

The detained lawyers have been denied access to their lawyers<\/strong> for 24 hours following their detention. Due to the confidentiality order on the case file, colleagues acting as defence counsel are also unable to access the content of the file. <\/strong>Such restrictions to the defence rights rule out the possibility of knowing the ongoing accusations against these lawyers and the reasons behind the raid of their office.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The People\u2019s Law Office also includes lawyers Sel\u00e7uk Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131, Bark\u0131n Timtik, Ayta\u00e7 \u00dcnsal and Oya Aslan, who have been imprisoned for years, as well as 18 other accused lawyers. Given that the office has often defended alleged members and supporters of the DHKP-C in criminal proceedings, these fellow lawyers have already been accused of being members or supporters of the DHKP-C themselves. This unacceptable identification of the lawyers with their clients also seems to be the reason for February 6 attack on the People\u2019s Law Office.<\/p>\n

For the above reasons, the undersigned organisations urge the authorities in Turkey to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Immediately and unconditionally release lawyers Didem Baydar \u00dcnsal, Berrak \u00c7a\u011flar, Seda \u015earald\u0131 and Bet\u00fcl Vang\u00f6l\u00fc Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Take all necessary measures to guarantee the rights to due process, legal defence and access to justice in the case of Didem Baydar \u00dcnsal, Berrak \u00c7a\u011flar, Seda \u015earald\u0131 and Bet\u00fcl Vang\u00f6l\u00fc Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Guarantee, in all circumstances, that all lawyers in Turkey <\/strong>are able to carry out their legitimate professional activities <\/strong>without fear of reprisals<\/strong>, and free of all undue restrictions, including judicial harassment, arbitrary arrest, deprivation of liberty or other arbitrary sanctions, in compliance with the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted in Havana in 1990.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The listed organisations remind the Court and the Turkish authorities that the world is watching.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The OIAD, together with the undersigned organisations, condemns the detention of lawyers Didem Baydar \u00dcnsal, Berrak \u00c7a\u011flar, Seda \u015earald\u0131 and Bet\u00fcl Vang\u00f6l\u00fc Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131, members of the Progressive Lawyers Association (\u00c7HD), following a raid on their office in Istanbul on February 6, 2024.   \u00a0On February 6, 2024, following an armed attack on the largest court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=17132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17143,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions\/17143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}