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

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lawyer, famous for filing complaints against more than 40 Turkish journalists and authors (including

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, 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.

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