Bekir Şahin (born 1 March 1960, Mecitözü,

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

) is a jurist, former judge and the current State Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation in Turkey.

Education

He was educated at the Imam Hatip school and studied law at the

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University () (DEÜ) is a Public university, public research university in İzmir, Turkey. Founded in 1982, it is organized into 18 faculties. It holds the distinction of being the first university in Turkey to implement the probl ...

from which he graduated in 1986. Following he entered the public administration and became a judge in courts in a variety of cities.

Court of Cassation

Since 2013, he acted as a member of the Court of Cassation. Between May 2019 and June 2020 he acted as the president of the 14th Chamber of the Court of Cassation. Nominated by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he serves as the State Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation (also known as Supreme Court of Appeals) since June 2020. On the 17 March 2021, he filed a lawsuit calling for the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), alleging they act in cooperation with the

Kurdistan Workers' Party The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, isDespite the PKK's 12th Congress announcing plans for total organisational dissolution, the PKK has not yet been dissolved de facto or de jure. a Kurds, Kurdish militant political organization and armed ...

(PKK) and against the unity of the state. In the same file, he called for the ban from politics for 600 politicians of the HDP.

Personal life

He is married and has 2 children.

References

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