Kemal Kerinçsiz

Kemal Kerinçsiz (born 20 February 1960, in Edirne, Turkey) is a Turkish nationalist lawyer, famous for filing complaints against more than 40 Turkish journalists and authors (including Orhan Pamuk, Elif Şafak,^[1][2] and the late Hrant Dink^[3]) for "insulting Turkishness". He heads the Büyük Hukukçular Birliği ("Great Union of Jurists"), which is responsible for most Article 301 trials.^[4]

He was detained while preparing the defense of retired captain Muzaffer Tekin , who was also detained in the same investigation during the Ergenekon case operation on January 22, 2008. He was arrested 6 days after his detention. On 5 August 2013, Kerinçsiz was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment as part of the Ergenekon trials.^[5] He was released together with several other suspects in March 2014.^[6]