Condemnation of prosecutions against the administration of the Istanbul Bar Association

As the Coordinating Committee of the Plenary of the Presidents of the Bar Associations of Greece states in its statement, "these prosecutions violate trade union freedom and the independence of the legal profession in Turkey."

Our organizations strongly condemn the dismissal of the Istanbul Bar Association İbrahim Kaboğlu and the dissolution of the Board of Directors for alleged acts of terrorist propaganda, following the judicial proceedings initiated on 14 January 2025 by the Istanbul Attorney General in retaliation for the statement issued by the Istanbul Bar Association on 21 December 2024 condemning the death of journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, who were…