The president of the Law Society, Phillip Sycamore, has written to the Turkish prime minister, Mesut Yilmaz, to express the Law Society’s concern and dismay at the shooting of Akin Birdal, the president of the Human Rights Association of Turkey. Sycamore called for a full and impartial investigation into the attack on Birdal.
A UK barrister who was recruited to jointly head Fox & Gibbons’ Turkish office has started industrial tribunal proceedings against his former employers. Ian Philliskirk, who joined the Middle East firm in January, quit after two months because he was unhappy with the way the office was being run. He is now seeking damages based […]
– International Bar Association president Ross Harper has welcomed the Turkish government’s decision to guarantee independence and freedom to its Bars. He says that the impending legislation, which will end the Minister of Justice’s current cont
LAW Society President Charles Elly has urged the Turkish government to release two human rights lawyers “without delay” following their arrest in the Kurdish district of Diyarbakir. In an open letter to Turkish president Suleyman Demirel, Elly says that the arrests of Sinan Tanrikulu and Firat Anli, the latest in a series of actions against […]