In an interview with Sputnik, Yaman Akdeniz, said that the judge told them that the appeal was rejected because Akdeniz and Altynparmak “are not participants to this litigation”. Akdeniz stressed that the judge had no authority to reject the appeal and they sent a repeated request.
The professor said that, “The judge from Gölbaşı district had no authority to review and reject the petition. According to the law on activities of the criminal courts, the judge had to send the petition to appeal to another judge because an appeal on the decision of a single judge of the world criminal court should be considered by another judge of the world criminal court.”
Since the District of Gölbaşı has only one judge, it should have been submitted to the duty of the world criminal court in Ankara.
“We re-filed the petition, which now must be sent to the court in Ankara. I believe that in this case tactics to delay the trial are being applied. The problem is that the decision to block the website in accordance with the law 5651 must be made by the court within 48 hours. Typically, it happens on the same day.”
Whereas, the situation with appeal is quite different as the appropriate application may be reviewed for a long period.
Akdeniz said that there have been cases when the judge did not rule the petition of appeal for 2-3 weeks. “This process is purposely delayed; it is fairly easy to do, since the law does not clearly define the term of consideration of appeals. If the Ankara court rejects our appeal, we will appeal to the Constitutional Court.”
On Wednesday, the chief editor of Sputnik News Agency’s Turkish bureau, Tural Kerimov, was denied entry to Turkey, stripped of his accreditation and residence permit in Turkey. Kerimov entry ban comes a week after Turkish authorities shut the agency’s Turkish-language website, citing "administrative measures."
