Kemal Kerinçsiz (born 20 February 1960, in
Edirne
Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...
, Turkey) is a Turkish
nationalist
Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation,Anthony D. Smith, Smith, A ...
lawyer, famous for filing complaints against more than 40 Turkish journalists and authors (including
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; ) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him ...
,
Elif Şafak, and the late
Hrant Dink) for "insulting
Turkishness". He heads the ''Büyük Hukukçular Birliği'' ("Great Union of Jurists"), which is responsible for most
Article 301 trials.
He was detained while preparing the defense of retired captain Muzaffer Tekin , who was also detained in the same investigation during the Ergenekon case operation on January 22, 2008. He was arrested 6 days after his detention. On 5 August 2013, Kerinçsiz was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment as part of the
Ergenekon trials
The Ergenekon trials or the Ergenekon conspiracy, were a series of high-profile trials which took place in 2008–2016 in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Erge ...
. He was released together with several other suspects in March 2014.
References
1960 births
Living people
People from Edirne
20th-century Turkish lawyers
Turkish nationalists
Mass media freedom in Turkey
People convicted in the Ergenekon trials
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Turkey
21st-century Turkish lawyers
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