Sept. 13 Judgment: The applicants, Mustafa Başer and Metin Özçelik, are Turkish nationals who were born in 1969 and 1970 respectively.
At the time of the events in question, the applicants were judges in the criminal courts in Istanbul. The case concerns their pre-trial detention while being held on suspicion of, among other charges, attempting to overthrow the Government and membership of an illegal armed organisation. They had been involved in the decisions to release suspects allegedly connected to the Fetullahist Terrorist Organisation/Parallel State Structure (Fetullahçı Terör Örgütü / Paralel Devlet Yapılanması). The applicants were ultimately found guilty of membership of an armed terrorist organisation and abuse of power only in 2017.
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