Bekir Şahin
Bekir Şahin is a jurist, former judge and the current State Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation in Turkey.
Education
He was educated at the Imam Hatip school and studied law at the Dokuz Eylül University 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 since June 2020.On the 17 March 2021, he filed a lawsuit calling for the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party, alleging they act in cooperation with the Kurdistan Workers' Party and against the unity of the state. In the same file, he called for the ban from politics for 600 politicians of the HDP.