Turkey amends laws to allow multiple lawyer associations

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Turkey’s parliament passed controversial legislation amending laws governing attorneys and bar associations, despite protests from critics who say the move could limit the independence of lawyers and reduce the professional associations’ clout.

Riot police officers stand at a security barricade as lawyers try to walk to the parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 10, 2020. Turkey's Bar Associations continue to protest against the government's plans to amend laws regulating on lawyers and their associations.

The new law, submitted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party, was passed after days of heated debate and following scuffles between police and lawyers protesting the legislation. The law allows multiple bar associations to be established if at least 2,000 lawyers apply in provinces with more than 5,000 lawyers. It also scraps proportional representation of bars in the national umbrella organization, in effect decreasing the number of delegates from Turkey’s major cities, which could reduce their funding.The main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, has vowed to ask Turkey’s Constitutional Court’s abolish it.

 

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