Vocational training program which is the first of four separate activities envisaged to be carried out by the General Prosecution Office of the Supreme Court of Appeal within the scope of our country’s 2020-2021 chairmanship term for the Southeast European Cooperation Process was held on April 11-16, 2021 in Ankara. Prosecutors from Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Moldova and Romania participated in the Program. The delegation consisted of Mr. Ols Dado, Director of Department of Foreign Jurisdictional Relations of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Albania, Mrs. Ervisa Hyka, Prosecutor of Fier District Prosecution from Albania, Mr. Kalin AsenovStoilov, Deputy Head of the Specialized Prosecutors Office of Bulgaria, Mr. Kiril Svetlozarov Peychinov, Prosecutor at the Specialized Prosecutors Office of Bulgaria, Mr. Atdhe Dema and Mr. Ilir Morina, Special Prosecutors from Kosovo, Mrs. Carolina Vıdrașcu-Brînza, Special Prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's Office of Moldova, Mr. Dumitru Obadă, Prosecutor, Chief of the Unit of Criminological Analysis, Legal Opinions and Legislative Proposals of the General Prosecutor Office, Mrs. Veronica Jalbă, Prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor's Office attached to the Constanța Local Court of Romania and Mr. Constantin Alexandru Nistor Cîrstoc, Prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Court of District 5 Bucharest.
Within the scope of the program, information was given about the Turkish judicial system by emphasizing the importance of developing distinctive cooperation mechanisms among the countries in the region for an effective fight against transnational crimes and evaluations were made on the challenges in international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. The President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Mr. Mehmet Akarca and the General Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Mr. Bekir Şahin received the Delegation. Also the delegation visited the Justice Academy of Turkey, the Regional Court of Appeal and the Beypazarı Courthouse.