Vice President of the Justice Academy of Kazakhstan, Mr. Razzak Nazilya Razzakbayevna and the accompanying delegation visited the Court of Cassation to be informed about the Court of Cassation Codes of Conduct on May 11, 2018.

Yusuf Ziyaattin Cenik, Secretary General of the Court of Cassation, who received the Kazakhstan delegation in his Office, answered the delegation’s questions on the Turkish judicial system, the role of the Court of Cassation, appellate courts and alternative dispute resolution methods.

Deputy Secretary General of the Court of Cassation, Dr. Mustafa Saldırım informed the delegation about the Court of Cassation Codes of Conduct which was accepted at the last quarter of last year. During the presentation, the formation process and characteristics of the Court of Cassation Codes of Conduct, Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, and the relationship between ethical principles,criminal law and disciplinary law were explained. Also “the Court of Cassation Judicial Codes of Conduct Law Clinic”, that are public access training programs aiming at spreading the Codes of Conduct to public were mentioned.

On 9-10 April 2018, President of the Court of Cassation İsmail Rüştü CİRİT, Deputy Secretary General of the Court of Cassation Dr. Mustafa SALDIRIM and Project Expert Gözde HÜLAGÜ attended the launch of the Global Integrity Network in Vienna, Austria. At the international meeting that has been attended upon the official invitation of UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), Istanbul Declaration on Transparency in the Judicial Process and the Draft Implementation Measures, developed within the scope of the Ethics, Transparency and Trust Project of the Court of Cassation and Court of Cassation Code of Conduct that was adopted last year were shared with the presidents of supreme courts and international experts from five continents of the world and from different legal systems.

At the high level session titled as “Combating Corruption in the Justice System- Good Practices and Lessons Learned and the Role of Judicial Integrity Network”, President of the Court of Cassation Mr. İsmail Rüştü CİRİT delivered a speech, which was simultaneously translated into 6 languages, about the Court of Cassation Code of Conduct, Istanbul Declaration and Implementation Measures. In the framework of bilateral meetings, along with the Presidents of Supreme Courts, the progress of the Istanbul Declaration in the UN system, the development of transparency cooperation in the judiciary and the themes for the 4th Supreme Courts Summit to be held in October this year and the contributions to be made by the Court of Cassation to Judicial Integrity Network were discussed with the Head of UNODC's Division for Treaty Affairs, Mr. John BRANDOLINO. Mr. President İsmail Rüştü CİRİT was accompanied by Permanent Representative Ambassador to the UN, Mr. Ahmed Muhtar GÜN and Permanent Representative Officials Mr. Cenk ÜNAL and Mr. Ulaş SOYLU at the bilateral meeting.

Click here for President of the Court of Cassation İsmail Rüştü CİRİT’s speech

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The opening of the Court’s judicial year took place on 26 January 2018. To mark the occasion, a seminar was held on the topic The authority of the judiciary, attended by Presidents of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts of the Council of Europe member States and numerous senior judicial figures.

At the solemn hearing that followed the seminar, President Guido Raimondi and Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, addressed an audience of around 350 persons.

On 26 January 2018, İsmail Rüştü Cirit, First President of the Court of Cassation, visited the Court and was received by President Guido Raimondi. Işıl Karakaş, judge elected in respect of Türkiye, and Roderick Liddell, Registrar, also attended the meeting.

Within the scope of "Ethics, Transparency and Trust Project of the Court of Cassation (CoC)", Expert Group Meeting on İstanbul Declaration on Transparency in Judiciary Meeting was held under the Presidency of İsmail Rüştü CİRİT, President of CoC, on October, 20, 2017. In the meeting: A workshop has been carried out with the international experts representing the different legal systems on the Draft Action Plan for the Implementation of The Istanbul Declaration by Nihal Jayawickrama, the Coordinator of the UN-sponsored Judicial Integrity Group, who drafted the Commentary on the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct.It is envisaged that Draft Action Plan for the Implementation of the İstanbul Declaration will be accepted with the international level of participants in the Summit of High Courts which is scheduled to be organized by Court of Cassation in the next year. 

İstanbul Declaration
The Programme of Expert Group Meeting on İstanbul Declaration on Transparency in Judiciary
Draft Action Plan for the Implementation of the İstanbul Declaration
Biographies of Experts

On 25-29 September 2017 Deputy First President of Court of Cassation, Abdülhalik YILDIZ and accompanying delegation attended "Silk Road International Judicial Cooperation Forum" and events held in the People's Republic of China (Dunhuang and Xi' an).