Bekir Şahin (born 1 March 1960,

Mecitözü Mecitözü is a town and district of Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 37 km from the city of Çorum Çorum () (Medieval Greek: Ευχάνεια, romanized: Euchaneia) is a northern Anatolian city that is the capital of t ...

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) is a jurist, former judge and the current State Prosecutor of the

Court of Cassation A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case, they only interpret the relevant law. In this they are appellate courts of the highest instance. In th ...

in Turkey.

Education

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

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turke ...

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 PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south ...

(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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Şahin, Bekir Turkish jurists Turkish judges Turkish prosecutors 1960 births People from Mecitözü Living people Dokuz Eylül University alumni