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Following the response of the 14th High Criminal Court to the Constitutional Court’s decision on Enis Berberoğlu’s retrial, overtime is being spent in Ankara.
Constitutional Court Member Engin Yıldırım shared “The lights are on” on his Twitter account after the Higher Criminal Court decision, with the photograph of the AYM building.
In response, the Interior Ministry shared photos of the Ministry building with the message “Our lights never go out” on its official Twitter account.
After reactions that this post contains “implication”, Yıldırım made another post saying “I mean in light of the law, not other lights”.
The AKP government and its governing partner front MHP have harsh reactions to sharing.
Mehmet Muş, vice president of the AKP Group, argued that Engin Yıldırım’s message carried a “threat” and said they condemned the statement.
In his post on his social media account, Muş said: “No institution or person can intimidate the national will.”
Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül shared that “those who yearn for guardianship lose the ability to speak for the law. Nation turns on the lights, Nation turns them off.”
The 14th Higher Criminal Court of Istanbul ruled against Enis Berberoğlu that, despite the unanimous decision of the Constitutional Court, “there is no need for a new trial.
The court argued that the Constitutional Court’s decision on Enis Berberoğlu, who was removed from office as a member of parliament, was “within the scope of the fitness check”, and argued that there was no room for a new trial.
CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, speaking at the General Assembly of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, said: “The Constitutional Court makes a decision. A court says ‘I will not obey’. Well, who are we going to? .
‘Member of the Constitutional Court implies a coup d’état’
Some commentators close to the government on social media call Yıldırım’s post “an indication of a coup.”
https://twitter.com/yenisafakwriter/status/1316121429356818433?s=20
Lawyer Kerem Altıparmak, defending court member Yıldırım, assessed that he “took a risk to defend freedom and the law.”
https://twitter.com/KeremALTIPARMAK/status/1316112463688019968?s=20
Who is Engin Yıldırım?
The CV of Engin Yıldırım, Member of the Constitutional Court, on the AYM website
He was born in 1966 in Üsküdar, Istanbul. He completed his primary and secondary education at Beylerbeyi. He graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Economics in 1987.
In 1988, he passed the proficiency exam conducted to train faculty members and went to England for postgraduate study. He completed his Masters at Warwick University Warwick Business School in 1989 and his PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Social Studies, University of Manchester in 1994; Between 1994 and 2010, he worked as a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of the University of Sakarya. Between 2003 and 2010, he served as dean of the same faculty.
On September 4, 2010, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Court by the President of the Republic from among three candidates proposed by the YÖK General Assembly.
He was elected vice president of the Constitutional Court at the meeting held on 10/19/2015 by the General Assembly of the Constitutional Court. This duty ended on 10/25/2019 and he continues to serve as a member.
Engin Yıldırım, who speaks English, is married with two children.
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