Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya

Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya (/əbdʊəˈræxmæn jɑːltʃɪnˈkaɪ.ə/ ( listen) əb-doo-RAKH-man yahl-chin-KY-ə; Turkish: [ˌabdurɑhˈman jɑɫˈt͡ʃɯnkɑˌjɑ]; born 10 March 1950 in Şanlıurfa, Turkey) is a high-ranked Turkish judge and the former Chief Public Prosecutor (between 2007–2011) of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey. Since the end of his term on 2011, he has been a member of the Supreme Court of Appeals' Eight Civil Department.

Justice and Development Party closure case

As the highest-ranked Public Prosecutor of Turkey, Yalçınkaya brought charges against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on 14 March 2008 to the Constitutional Court of Turkey, charging the party for violating the principle of separation of religion and state in Turkey and requesting that the party be closed and its 71 officials barred from politics for five years.^[1] Those officials include the current president Abdullah Gül and the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The court confirmed that the party had become "a center for anti-secular activities", but decided not to close the party, imposing a financial penalty as a warning instead by cutting 50% of the state funding to the party.

References

External links

• Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya, High Court of Appeals. (in Turkish)