Osman Şirin

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Osman Şirin (born November 5, 1943 in Vakfıkebir , Trabzon Province , Turkey ) is a Turkish lawyer. From 1991 to 2008 he was a judge at the Turkish Court of Cassation , from 2004 also as its first vice-president.

After finishing school in Trabzon , Şirin studied law at Istanbul University . He then did his military service in Lüleburgaz . He began his career as a judge as a candidate in Trabzon and then worked as a judge in Narman , İkizdere , Akçakoca and Bafra . In Samsun he was then chairman of a criminal court for larger cases and went from there to Istanbul , where he was judge in press criminal cases and then at a criminal court for larger cases.

Şirin was elected a member of the Court of Cassation, the country's highest ordinary court , on August 15, 1991 , and was elected one of its two First Vice-Presidents by its Grand Plenary Assembly on October 25, 2004, a position he held until his retirement as executive chairman.

He was a member of the Grand Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, which in 2006 upheld a conviction of the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink for insulting Turkishness . Şirin was one of the judges who issued a separate vote against the punishment; it stated, among other things, there arises the fatal impression that Dink had therefore been punished for the "events of 1915" as a genocide had described.

At times, Şirin publicly took part in legal policy debates, for example when he spoke out in favor of delaying a reform of the criminal code in 2005 . In 2008 Şirin spoke out several times against initiatives by the Turkish government under Prime Minister Erdoğan and Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Şahin . He opposed plans to loosen the headscarf ban and, in his capacity as executive chairman of the Court of Cassation, declared in February 2008 that the judiciary would prevent the country from abandoning secularism . A press review for the US government concluded that his reaction would be seen as the strongest warning from the judiciary to the government. In May 2008, Şirin publicly opposed the planned reform of the Ministry of Justice to bring the members of the highest courts under greater control of the executive branch through disciplinary measures without having been consulted beforehand.

On November 5, 2008, Şirin retired.

He is married and has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zekai Dağaşan: The reputation of the state in Turkish and German criminal law (= contemporary legal history. Department 5: Current legal affairs - legal policy and justice from a contemporary perspective. Volume 24). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2015, p. 126 and more frequently.
  2. ↑ TCK delay praised ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Hürriyet , April 1, 2005 (English).
  3. ^ Supreme Court of Appeals: We won't let secularism be violated. In: Dünya , February 5, 2008 (English); Turkish parliament votes today to end ban on headscarf. In: The Daily Star , February 6, 2008 ( AFP report, English).
  4. ^ Cablegate: Ankara Media Reaction Report. In: Scoop.co.nz , Wikileaks , February 5, 2008 (English).
  5. ^ New judicial reform package sparks controversy ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Hürriyet , May 10, 2008 (English).
  6. ↑ Turkish Mass Media Bulletin 10-12 / 05/2008. In: Cyprus.gov.cy , May 2008 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Şirin, Osman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish lawyer and First Vice-President of the Court of Cassation
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vakfıkebir , Trabzon Province , Turkey