Hunting. Ali Kasım Tuna Became a Candidate for the Presidency of Istanbul Bar Association No. 2 and Announced His Promises

Ali Kasım Tuna, who previously served as a board member and the President of the Fair Trial Center of the Istanbul No. 2 Bar Association, announced that he was a Presidential Candidate for the Istanbul No. 2 Bar Association.

Ali Kasım Tuna announced what he would do if elected president and his plans for the functioning of the bar at the meeting held in a hotel today.

"I AM NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION"

Lawyer Tuna, who said in his speech that he would give account for every authority, every task and every penny entrusted to him, said, "What will make the bar association strong is not the power of one person, but the power of a common will. I express it before you once again: I am a candidate for the presidency of the bar association."

"A BAR ASSOCIATION WHERE NONE OF OUR COLLEGEES ARE LEAVED ALONE"

"We will carry the experience of our professional elders on our shoulders," said Tuna, adding, "We want a bar association where both its doors and phones are always open, where it is the first to stand by its colleagues when their rights are violated, where young people have a real say in the administration, where lawyers can get rewarded for their efforts, and where none of our colleagues who are under threat are left alone."

HUNTING. PROMISES OF ALI KASIM TUNA

1) Our bar association; We will make it a center of attraction for young lawyers and strengthen it with the experience of our professionals.

Our young colleagues take an active part in management, commissions and representation duties; We will implement a management approach in which the experience of our professionals guides every decision. We will combine the energy of young people with the experience of our masters.

2) We will establish a Mentoring System and Experience Transfer Center that will operate within our Bar Association. It will match experienced colleagues with interns and young lawyers according to their fields of practice; We will support the start of the career with regular meetings, applied file studies and experience transfer.

3) We will support the employment of young lawyers. In order to promote the secure employment of lawyers in their first five years of practice; We will develop incentive models to reduce the premiums and employment costs of law firms that employ young lawyers, and we will work with relevant institutions to implement the necessary legislative regulations.

4) We will support license and profession entry expenses. It will prepare legislative studies in order to reduce the licenses, fees and compulsory expenses faced by lawyers who are new to the profession and to eliminate them where possible; We will take initiatives with the relevant institutions to implement the necessary regulations and follow the process.

5) We will ease the Bag-Kur premium burden. It will prepare legislative studies in order to reduce and stagger the Bağ-Kur premium burden that lawyers new to the profession face, especially in their first years; We will take initiatives with the relevant institutions to implement the necessary regulations and follow the process.

6) We will provide additional financial support to Intern Lawyers during the internship period. Through collaborations with participation banks, we will develop special interest-free financing opportunities for trainee lawyers; We will create advantageous support models where repayments can be made after starting the profession.

7) We will establish an internship matching system.

8) Again, we will work to ensure that the internship period, which is an issue that concerns our Young Brothers and everyone in this hall, is counted in the seniority period.

EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZATION

"Our goal is not only to facilitate the start of the profession; it is to further the existing knowledge of our bar association and increase its quality and reputation in every field. We will turn our bar association into a qualified training and expertise center for our colleagues of all seniority and ages. We will increase our knowledge in every field, from legislative changes to innovations in practice, and improve our professional formation."

We will always keep it at the top. "

For this;

1) We will renew the SEM education system and increase the quality of the training programs by making them more efficient, up-to-date and practical.

2) We will connect CMK trainings to a regular calendar. We will organize CMK trainings every three months and focus on practice in the trainings.

3) We will establish an Applied Law Academy. In addition to file review, petition writing, hearing and enforcement practice, we will conduct practical studies on data security and professional secrecy in the use of artificial intelligence.

4) We will organize professional and sectoral summits. We will bring together public institutions, private sector, academia and lawyers on the same platform at the thematic summits we will organize in different fields of law. We will regularize these summits, where current legal and sectoral problems are discussed together, legislation and implementation needs are discussed, and new areas of work and collaborations are developed.

QUALITY OF LIFE AND COURTHOUSE WORKING CONDITIONS

"On the one hand, we will increase our professional quality, and on the other hand, we will try to overcome the difficulties we encounter during the day together. We will take every step together to increase the quality of life of our colleagues while performing their profession."

In this context;

1) We will create lawyer libraries and work areas around the courthouse. It will take our colleagues away from the noise and stress of the courthouse; It will offer quiet and decent work areas where they can take shelter; We will create social environments where they can breathe during the day.

2) We will increase the number of shared offices close to courthouses.

3) We will create child care centers in courthouses for lawyers with children and provide breastfeeding rooms in courthouses.

4) We will bring Bar Association Social Facilities to the Anatolian and European Sides.

We will provide Bar Association Social Facilities. It includes social facilities, guesthouses, restaurants, restaurants, recreation and socializing areas; We will create quality facilities where our colleagues can spend time in peace with their families and guests, away from the busyness of the city.

5) It will make our Bar Association building more useful; We will transform the bar rooms in courthouses into workspaces that our colleagues can actively use and meet their needs.

6) We will provide accessibility for our disabled colleagues. We will work to make the necessary revisions in our bar association building and courthouses, suitable for the use of our disabled colleagues.

7) We will organize regular culture and art events. We will organize regular events where our colleagues can breathe, socialize and enrich their cultural knowledge in their busy working lives. We will create programs in different areas, from talks to theater and concerts, from exhibitions to literature and cinema meetings; We will organize qualified events open to the participation of our colleagues and their families.

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND RIGHTS

"Dear colleagues; our greatest responsibility is to build a professional ground where we can work safely, as well as our breathing spaces, social opportunities and quality of life. We will fight until there is not a single lawyer left exposed to pressure, threats and violence in the seizure area, courthouse corridor or office. We will not leave the defense defenseless and will guarantee our professional rights and security."

For this;

1. We will establish a 24/7 Emergency Occupational Safety Line. In case of threats, attacks or obstruction of professional activities against the lawyer, we will provide rapid guidance and legal follow-up.

2. We will strengthen the Lawyer Rights Center in the field. Ensure that a representative of the Lawyers' Rights Center is present next to our colleague who has a rights violation at the courthouse or during his professional activities; We will actually follow the process from recording the incident to making the necessary legal and administrative applications.

3. We will work to ensure law enforcement accompaniment in all foreclosure procedures. Not leaving the lawyer's safety to risk assessment in foreclosure proceedings; We will develop an implementation model with relevant institutions and follow the necessary legislative regulations to make law enforcement support at the foreclosure site effective and accessible. We will bring to the agenda the strengthening of security mechanisms for the professional activities of lawyers within the judicial law enforcement structure.

4. We will follow the regulations that deter violence against lawyers. Similar to the White Code application for healthcare professionals, it will prepare a model for rapid notification, effective intervention and establishment of a special follow-up mechanism in cases of threats and violence against lawyers; We will carry out legislation to implement more deterrent regulations against targeting lawyers due to their professional activities.

5. We will work to remove space restrictions in courthouses. Identify space and access restrictions within the courthouse that make it difficult for lawyers to perform their duties; We will pursue the establishment of a permanent standard of practice before the Ministry of Justice and relevant judicial authorities to facilitate access to the areas required by professional activity as a lawyer.

6. We will establish a rapid mechanism against personal data disclosure. It will create an application and legal follow-up mechanism that will be activated quickly in case of unlawful sharing of lawyers' personal data in investigations and prosecutions; When necessary, we will closely follow the processes before the KVKK, the prosecutor's office and relevant institutions on behalf of our colleague.

7. We will protect the independence of defense. It will wage an institutional and legal struggle against the identification of the lawyer's professional activity with crime, the suppression of the duty of defense, and practices that weaken the status of a lawyer; We will follow up on legislation that will strengthen the independence of defense.

8. We will ensure the right of excuse for our pregnant colleagues. It will prepare proposals for changes in the Civil Procedure Code and the relevant procedural legislation, in order to ensure that failure to attend a hearing during pregnancy does not lead to loss of rights and to ensure that excuses gain legal security; We will follow up on the implementation of the regulation with the Ministry of Justice and relevant institutions.

9. We will protect the reputation of the profession. We will create an effective monitoring mechanism against content that damages the reputation of the legal profession in society, discredits the profession, or creates a wrong perception in the public.

10. We will protect the quality of the profession. We will defend the continuation of the reduction in law faculty quotas, the maintenance of the success ranking requirement for admission to the faculty and the implementation of the Legal Professions Entrance Examination (HMGS). We will fight actively to ensure that work that can only be handled with the competence of a lawyer is not carried out under any name or title, especially the petitioners in the courthouse circles.

11. We Will Follow Up on the Personal and Professional Rights of Our Public Lawyers. We will prepare concrete legislative proposals to eliminate the indicator and additional indicator problems of our public lawyers, to compensate for the losses in fees and attorney fees, and to harmonize their financial and social rights with the responsibilities they assume; We will follow the process until the end by taking strong initiatives before the relevant ministries, the Turkish Grand National Assembly and the Turkish Bar Association.

ECONOMIC PROMISES

Dear colleagues; The basis of independent defense is to remain economically strong and independent. We have to put an end to the devaluation of our labor, ridiculous fees in CMK and legal aid tariffs, and prolonged collection ordeals.

1. We will purify the CMK system from paperwork confusion.

CMK will develop a technical model to carry out assignment, paperwork and wage processes faster and easier through a single digital structure; We will follow up the process with the Ministry of Justice and relevant institutions for administrative and legislative regulations that will ensure that the fees are paid without delay.

2. We will work to reduce the VAT burden on legal services.

Prepare concrete legislative proposals to reduce the VAT rate, consider exemptions or different rate models for certain services, taking into account the quality of legal services and the right to access justice; We will follow up the regulation before the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, the Ministry of Justice and the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

3. We will work to open new jobs and working areas for lawyers.

Expanding the scope of companies' obligation to have contracted lawyers; We will prepare legislative proposals to develop existing capital-based criteria with criteria that more accurately reflect the economic size of companies.

In this context; We will work to expand lawyer services and open new working areas for lawyers in many special areas, especially the signing of flat-for-land contracts, real estate purchase, sale and rental agreements, urban transformation processes, company establishment, transfer and partnership transactions, and site and apartment management transactions.

4. We will expand the scope of representation and legal consultancy to lawyers.

5. We will create a comprehensive legislation and jurisprudence portal specifically for lawyers.

Current legislation; We will make available to our colleagues free of charge a digital law portal that brings together the decisions of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Appeals, Council of State and other judicial authorities on a single platform and offers advanced search and filtering opportunities.

6. We will facilitate lawyers' access to professional data.

It will develop integration and protocol models with relevant institutions so that lawyers can have faster and more direct access to land registry, TAKBİS and other public data that they are legally authorized to access within the scope of their work and pursuits; We will monitor the elimination of application and regulatory problems that limit access.

7. We will work to reduce the 15-year seniority requirement for green passports.

In order for lawyers to benefit from the right to a specially stamped passport earlier, the current 15-year seniority requirement will be reduced and the time spent in legal internship will be included in the seniority calculation. We will follow up with the relevant institutions to ensure that the regulation is implemented.

8. We will facilitate the visa processes of our colleagues.

By establishing a Visa Support Unit within our Bar Association, we will provide professional status, registration and reference letters in a standard and rapid manner; We will work to facilitate the application processes for our colleagues who travel extensively by developing corporate collaborations with consulates and authorized visa institutions.

9. We will completely eliminate the burden of dues during birth and serious illness.

It will completely remove the dues burden of our colleagues who have given birth or are temporarily unable to continue their professional activities due to serious illness; We will create a permanent social support model.

TRANSPARENT AND PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT

"The most fundamental element that will make all the promises we have made meaningful is a trust-based and transparent management approach. We want to carry our bar association to the future with a fully participatory and dynamic structure, where every penny of the budget is openly shared, our colleagues' opinions are taken into account in every decision taken. Our basic principles that will ensure digitalization in management, absolute transparency in the budget and each colleague having a direct say in the management are as follows;"

1. We will open the bar association budget to the inspection of our colleagues