Judges And Prosecutors

Judges of the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation

Muhsin Şentürk

Judge

Muhsin Şentürk

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He is the president of the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, which did not recognise the violation decision of the Constitutional Court concerning Can Atalay. He is also a member of the Platform for Unity in the Judiciary, which consists of pro-AKP judges. Şentürk is a candidate for the presidency of the Court of Cassation in the elections to be held on 25 March 2024.

Hakan Yüksel

Judge

Hakan Yüksel

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He is a member of the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, which did not recognise the violation decision of the Constitutional Court on Can Atalay. He is also a member of the Platform for Unity in the Judiciary, which consists of pro-AKP judges. In 2022, his daughter's wedding was attended by high-level executives, including the deputy chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). When he was a prosecutor, he came to the agenda with his decision of non-prosecution due to the statute of limitations on the investigation of the Sivas incidents.

Ali Nevzat Açıkgöz

Judge

Ali Nevzat Açıkgöz

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He is also the president of the Platform for Unity in the Judiciary, which consists of pro-AKP judges. The news of his appointment to the Court of Cassation was reported by Anadolu Agency with the headline 'fetö measures to the Court of Cassation'.

Nazım Durmaz

Judge

Nazım Durmaz

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He is a member of the Platform for Unity in the Judiciary, which consists of pro-AKP judges. He was the president of the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Istanbul Regional Court of Appeals, where judges accused of membership in the Gülen movement were tried. In 2018, he was appointed to the Court of Cassation.

Oğuz Dik

Judge

Oğuz Dik

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He is a member of the Platform for Unity in the Judiciary, which consists of pro-AKP judges. Dik, who was the president of the court that handled the General Staff Main trial concerning coup attempt, was rewarded and elected as a member of the Court of Cassation in 2019 after he announced his verdict.

Judges of 14th Court of Assize

Akın Gürlek

Judge

Akın Gürlek

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He presided over important trials such as the case against the police officers who carried out corruption operations against AKP ministers, the case against the police officers who handled the Tahşiye investigation, the case against Can Dündar, Enis Berberoğlu and Erdem Gül, and the case against the police officers who conducted the Selam Tevhid investigation. Rüzgar, who was rewarded for his judgements, was appointed as a member of the Court of Cassation in November 2020.

Canel Rüzgar

Judge

He presided over the Dink murder trial, in which public officials were prosecuted, from the acceptance of the indictment until December 2016.

Canel Rüzgar

Judge

Ali İhsan Horasan

Judge

He presided over the Dink murder trial from December 2016 to September 2018.

Ali İhsan Horasan

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He presided over political trials closely followed by the public, such as the Hrant Dink case, the trials opened after 15 July, and the trial of lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı for the Association of Contemporary Lawyers. He arrested CHP MP Enis Berberoğlu in the MIT trucks trial. He is currently presiding the Istanbul 18th Court of Assize.

Emre Efe Şimşek

Judge

He presided over the Dink murder trial from September 2018 to September 2019.

Emre Efe Şimşek

Judge

He is one of the judges of the AKP regime acting in line with its political interests. He served as a member judge in the trial of 29 people, including singer Atilla Taş, journalists and writers. In the Dink murder case, he was the presiding judge that made the decision of severence for the file of triggerman and the instigators in 2019. In 2022, he was promoted to first class judge and is currently a judge at Istanbul Bakırköy courthouse.

Ömer Karagöl

Judge

He served as a member judge in the Dink murder trial until May 2017.

Ömer Karagöl

Judge

He served on the Mit trucks case and the Dink murder case. In the Mit trucks case, he made a dissenting opinion against Erdoğan's participation request and in the Dink case, he voted not to accept the indictment requesting Fethullah Gülen and Zekeriya Öz to be added to the file. After this, he was sent to the Silivri Court of Assize. After a long break, he was again appointed as a Court of Assize judge in Bakırköy in 2022.

Arif Atanıan

Judge

He was a member judge of the Dink murder trial from December 2016 to October 2017.

Arif Atanıan

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He was a member judge in the Mit trucks case and the case against the police officers who handled the Selam Tevhid investigation. In July 2018, he was appointed as a Court of Cassation examining judge and in 2021 he was appointed as a member of Sakarya Regional Court of Appeals.

Cem Karaca

Judge

He was a member judge in the Dink murder case until December 2016.

Cem Karaca

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He was a judge in the trials against the police officers who carried out corruption operations against AKP ministers and in the trials against the police officers who investigated the Selam Tevhid organisation. After 15 July, he is known as the longest and fiercefully serving judge in the cases against the Gülen community in Istanbul. In September 2023, he was rewarded by being made Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors.

Sonat Güvenç

Judge

He was a member judge of the Dink murder trial from October 2017 to July 2018.

Sonat Güvenç

Judge

Lieutenant Güvenç, who had served in military courts before Dink case, was assigned as a court of assize judge at the Bakırköy courthouse after the abolition of military courts. Güvenç was also part of the court committee that heard the case against the police officers who conducted the Selam Tevhid investigation. In 2018, he was appointed as Gaziosmanpaşa public prosecutor.

Emrah Kızılhisar

Judge

He was a member judge of the Dink murder trial from March 2019 to November 2019.

Emrah Kızılhisar

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He was a member judge of the court that did not allow the release of a pregnant detainee who was on trial for being a member of the Gülen movement. HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu filed a complaint against him to the Counsel of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK). However, no result was obtained. He was promoted and appointed as the president of Bakırköy 20th Court of Assize.

Şenol Kartal

Judge

He was a member judge in the court hearing the Dink murder case as of late 2020.

Şenol Kartal

Judge

He is one of the judges acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. In 2016, he was appointed as a judge from the legal affairs directorate of the AKP-affiliated Başakşehir municipality and was a member judge in the court that signed many unlawful judgements with Akın Gürlek. He is currently serving as a Court of Assize judge at Bakırköy courthouse.

Prosecutors

Gökalp Kökçü

Prosecutor

Evliya Çalışkan

Prosecutor

In the first half of 2016, he was appointed as a public prosecutor in the Dink Murder case.

Evliya Çalışkan

Prosecutor

He is one of the prosecutor acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He took part in the Mit trucks case. He demanded a 25-year imprisonment for Can Dündar. He took part in the trials started after 15 July coup attempt in Istanbul. After the coup attempt, he prepared a 59-page jet indictment and demanded aggravated life imprisonment for 29 police officers.

Mehmet Yeşilkaya

Prosecutor

He was prosecutor in the Dink murder case from August 2016 to January 2018.

Mehmet Yeşilkaya

Prosecutor

He is one of the prosecutors who took an active role in the political trials of the AKP regime. He was appointed after 15 July. In the Mit trucks case, he demanded 15 years imprisonment each for Enis Berberoğlu and Erdem Gül on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation. In the case of Academics signed peace declaration, he demanded the defendants to be sentenced for making propaganda for a terrorist organisation. In the Tahşiye trials, dozens of defendants, including the police officers who carried out the corruption operation against AKP ministers, were charged with membership in a terrorist organisation, forgery and slander. In the Hrant Dink murder case, the prosecutor gave a final opinion on the case of 19 defendants, including the perpetrators and instigators, whose files were separated in 2019.

Muhammed ikbal Anar

Prosecutor

He was the public prosecutor in the Dink murder case from October 2019 until the verdict hearing in 2021, and submitted a final opinion for the verdict.

Muhammed ikbal Anar

Prosecutor

He is one of the prosecutors acting in line with the political interests of the AKP regime. He said that Selam Tevhid investigation was a plot and gave an opinion for aggravated life imprisonment for the police officers who were dismissed after 17/25 December and arrested in 2014. He demanded 35 years imprisonment for Can Dündar in the Mit trucks case. In the Dink murder case, he submitted his final opinion, which was full of contradictions and demanded disproportionate sentences, to the court president Akın Gürlek, another AKP regime judge. He prepared a new indictment against Ogün Samast, who was released in November 2023.