Two judges on Turkey’s Constitutional Court appointed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in dissenting opinions that the rights of a convicted Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist who executed people in Syria had been violated.

Yusuf Sevki Hakyemez and Hasan Tahsin Gökcan, handpicked by the president for the bench of Turkey’s top court, dissented from the majority in the case of Irfan Yildiz, a man convicted on ISIS charges who escaped from prison, saying his rearrest violated his rights.

Yildiz and his jihadist comrades were tried but avoided the ISIS charges and were convicted only of illegal arms trafficking. Another case was launched against them in Istanbul on organized crime and ISIS charges.

Source: Nordic Monitor