An investigation was launched against Osman Korkut Kanadoğlu, AHG's Istanbul Bar Association presidential candidate.

At the 128th Ordinary General Assembly of the Istanbul Bar Association held at the Haliç Congress Center on 24-25 October 2026, Lawyer Rights Group's Istanbul Bar Association Presidential Candidate, Atty. Prof. Dr. An investigation was launched against Osman Korkut Kanadoğlu.

It was stated that the investigation initiated by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office was due to the speech Kanadoğlu made during the bar association election.

WHAT DID KANADOĞLU SAY?

Prof., who is running for the presidency on behalf of the Lawyer Rights Group at the Istanbul Bar Association. Dr. Osman Korkut Kanadoğlu said the following in his speech:

"Judges who do not comply with the decisions of the Constitutional Court, criminal judges of peace who give arbitrary arrest orders, we note you one by one. We monitor your every decision. We report these decisions.

"If these judges and prosecutors think, 'I will not abide by the law, I will torture lawyers and citizens, and I will not bear any responsibility for it,' they should know that we will have both hands on their backs."

Kanadoğlu was targeted by the ruling media because of his statements.

Lawyer Rights Group (AHG) candidate Osman Korkut Kanadoğlu received 2 thousand 543 votes.