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Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) yesterday appointed Tuba Ersoz making her the country’s first hijab-wearing public prosecutor.
Tuba Ersoz, Turkey’s first hijab-wearing public prosecutor, [Facebook]
Ersoz was appointed as the chief public prosecutor in Beyşehir district of Konya as part of the 2020 summer decree.
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) announced a mass reshuffling of 4,626 judges and prosecutors across several provinces.
Congratulating the judges and prosecutors on their new positions, the Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul wrote on Twitter: ‘I wish success to the judges and prosecutors appointed to their new posts by the Council of Judges and Prosecutors, and I wish the decree to be beneficial to the judicial community.”
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