In the case regarding the murder of Narin Güran, aggravated life imprisonment was requested for Nevzat Bahtiyar, whose 4 years and 6 months prison sentence was overturned by the Court of Cassation.
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The National – A village traumatised, a nation stunned: Who killed Narin?
The National examines murder of eight-year-old girl, one of Turkey’s most high-profile child killings Devamını Oku…
Ahval – Turkish court orders compensation payment in ‘ByLock’ app case
A Turkish court has ordered compensation be paid to one of many individuals falsely detained by police on suspicion of having been associated with the Gülen movement due to an app on their phones, according to Turkey’s Hürriyet newspaper on Saturday. Devamını Oku…
Boston Review – The App that Makes You a Terrorist
(By UMAR FAROOQ) In May 2017, Mustafa Yaman, a fifty-one-year-old lawyer in Istanbul, received a troubling phone call from a friend in the Turkish Ministry of Justice in Ankara. Devamını Oku…
The Verge – How a secretive, unknown smartphone app became the center of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown
(By Hamdullah faithfully served his country in the Turkish Armed Forces for more than two decades before retiring as a specialist sergeant. Needless to say, Hamdullah, who requested we only use his first name, was shocked when he suddenly found himself jailed upon suspicion of being a member of a terrorist organization in April of last year. Devamını Oku…
CBC – ‘Terrifying’: How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail
A lawyer and 2 digital forensic experts helped solve cases no one else would Devamını Oku…
Forensic Acquisition and Legal Handling of Digital Evidence: A Comparative Analysis of Turkish and International Practices
This academic paper explores the legal, procedural, and technical frameworks surrounding the acquisition and handling of digital evidence in criminal investigations. The analysis centres on both Turkish law enforcement procedures and their alignment (or lack thereof) with international forensic standards, drawing comparisons with best practices in the UK, EU, and the US.
Expression Interrupted – Hikmet Çetinkaya
Hikmet Çetinkaya, a well-known columnist for the Cumhuriyet daily, is also on the executive board of the Cumhuriyet Foundation.
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Cumhuriyet – Freedom for Emre İper, officially declared not to have ByLock
It has been announced that 11,480 people, our colleague Emre İper numbering among them, do not have ByLock
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Platform 24 – Journalists in State of Emergency
Two journalists released in Özgür Gündem trial; 45 new detentions made as part of a probe into the Journalists and Writers Foundation
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