{"id":22968,"date":"2025-07-03T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/rapport-de-mission-chd-et-proces-batonnier-distanbul\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:31:38","slug":"judicial-observation-mission-criminal-trial-of-the-istanbul-bar-president-and-the-council-of-the-bar-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/judicial-observation-mission-criminal-trial-of-the-istanbul-bar-president-and-the-council-of-the-bar-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial observation mission \u2013 Criminal trial of the Istanbul Bar President and the Council of the Bar Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trial observation of<\/strong>: Istanbul Bar President and Council of the Bar Association (Criminal trial)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of mission<\/strong>: 26 \u2013 30 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of the report<\/strong>: June 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong>: The OIAD, represented by its delegates Antonio Fraticelli (Bologna), Franck Heurtrey (Lyon) and Charles Ohlgusser (Paris), attended the opening of the new trial of Sel\u00e7uk Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131, \u00d6zg\u00fcr Y\u0131lmaz, Oya Aslan and Bark\u0131n Timtik, all four long-term prisoners, and G\u00fc\u00e7l\u00fc Sevimli and G\u00fclvin Ayd\u0131n, prosecuted for \u2018terrorist propaganda\u2019, at the \u00c7a\u011flayan Court in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>On 28 May 2025, OIAD observers attended the criminal trial initiated by the Turkish authorities against the President of the Istanbul Bar Association, Ibrahim Kabo\u011flu, and members of his Bar Council, for \u2018disseminating misleading information\u2019 and \u2018terrorist propaganda\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the OIAD was able to attend the release of Firat Ep\u00f6zdemir at the end of his trial on 29 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rapport-de-mission-CHD-et-Proces-Batonnier-dIstanbul-20.06.2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Read the mission report<\/em><\/strong>:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial observation of: Istanbul Bar President and Council of the Bar Association (Criminal trial) Date of mission: 26 \u2013 30 May 2025 Date of the report: June 2025 Description: The OIAD, represented by its delegates Antonio Fraticelli (Bologna), Franck Heurtrey (Lyon) and Charles Ohlgusser (Paris), attended the opening of the new trial of Sel\u00e7uk Koza\u011fa\u00e7l\u0131, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968","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=22968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23274,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions\/23274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}