The current president of Ankara Bar Association No. 2 admitted 'the corruption in the judiciary': Ağdemir withdrew his candidacy!

After the Ankara Bar Association completed its elections, all eyes turned to the Ankara Bar Association No. 2 elections to be held this weekend. Especially; The election in Istanbul Bar Association No. 2 was held by the candidate supported by AKP and MHP, Atty. Atty. supported by independent Islamic circles and the National Vision Tradition against Ali Kasım Tuna. Rıza Saka's win made the elections of Ankara Bar Association No. 2 a matter of curiosity.

THE ELECTION THAT CUMHUR IS FIGHTING FOR

In Ankara No. 2, the current president, Atty., is supported by MHP/idealist lawyers. Gökhan Ağdemir is AKP Ankara Provincial Board Member, Atty. Murat Can Doğan was competing. In the election in which the People's Alliance was pitted against each other, Ağdemir's statement in the previous day's live broadcast, "The Ministry gave us a privilege, we made 70 of our bora member lawyer colleagues as judges and prosecutors within two years" caused the opposition's reaction. The opposition evaluated Ağdemir's statement as "a legal corruption that is as big as the fund scandal and cannot be covered up."

'UNACCEPTABLE' FROM THE COMPETITION GROUP

Ağdemir's "terrorism in the judiciary" confession changed the course of the election race. AKP's Atty. A reaction statement came from the Together Bar Movement, for which Doğan is a candidate. In the statement made by the movement; "Bar associations are not structures that demand privileges from any political or administrative authority, but constitutional institutions that are obliged to defend the rule of law, independence of the judiciary and the principle of merit unconditionally. It is unacceptable that the achievements of our colleagues are overshadowed by any reference, privilege or relationship network discourse."

AĞDEMİR WITHDRAWED FROM CANDIDACY

Following both the public reaction and the statement of the Together Bar Association Movement, current president Ağdemir announced his withdrawal from candidacy yesterday. Ağdemir argued that his statement was taken out of context; "I believe that the distinction between criticism and decontextualization, biased evaluation and prejudice, and distortion and perception creation efforts should be well evaluated. It is also my responsibility not to allow the perception operation carried out on my person to harm the future of our bar association. For this reason, I decided to withdraw from the candidacy for the President of the Ankara No. 2 Bar Association in order to prevent the public debates about me from causing further damage to the institution I represent, to protect the reputation of our bar association and to prevent the ethical values of the legal profession from becoming cheap political material." "I am announcing to the public that I have received it," he said.

RIVAL CANDIDATE WAS APPOINTED TO THE MINISTRY

AKP's Atty. It was noteworthy that Doğan shared a photo from the Ministry of Justice about an hour before his rival Ağdemir's statement. Hunting. Doğan visited the General Director of Legal Services of the Ministry of Justice, Mücahit Gülşen, and the General Director of Legal Affairs, Erdinç Avşar.