Turkey's lawyers postpone 'Justice March' after soldiers' deaths in Syria
A 'Justice March' that lawyers from across Turkey were planning to conduct on Mar. 2 to protest the decay of the judicial system has been postponed in light of the death of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syrian army attacks in Idlib, the Ankara Bar Association said. The march would have been carried out "in search of judicial independence, a state of law and a fair judiciary and to condemn the executive pressures on the judiciary."
Duvar English
A Justice March that bar associations across Turkey were planning to conduct in Ankara on Mar. 2 was postponed in light of the death of at least 33 Turkish soldiers in attacks carried out by the Syrian army in the Northern Syrian province of Idlib.
"The march that we were planning to conduct 'in search of judicial independence, a state of law and a fair judiciary and to condemn the executive pressures on the judiciary' has been postponed out of our deep sadness and respect to our martyrs," said a statement by the Ankara Bar Association.
Lawyers from across Turkey were planning to meet at an Ankara courthouse and march to the Supreme Court in protest of the disintegration of the rule of law that has occurred in recent years under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government.