Bekir Şahin

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.

Between May 2019 and June 2020 he acted as the president of the 14th Chamber of the Court of Cassation.

[3] On the 17 March 2021, he filed a lawsuit calling for the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), alleging they act in cooperation with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and against the unity of the state.

[4] In the same file, he called for the ban from politics for 600 politicians of the HDP.