Pressure On Judges

Judges, who made depositions at the Lancet-2 Trials, made shocking revelations. They said that Appeals Court Judge Ergul Guryel called them on the phone and attempted to influence their depositions.In yesterday's hearing about the allegations that there had been pressures on some judges to influence the verdicts, a number of judges said that they were offered promotions and threatened of expulsion, to obey Appeals Court Ergul Guryel, who is the father of Cenk Guryel , a defendant in the case.During the hearing at the 11th Heavy Penal Court of Ankara, witness Aydemir Ersoy said that  Appeals Court member Huseyin Demirors had called him and pleaded to him to meet the attorneys of Turkcell GSM company which was challenging Telekom at court, to make a verdict in favour of Turkcell.Â