The foundation of the new service building of the Samsun Bar Association has been laid

SAMSUN (IHA) – The foundation of the Samsun Bar Association Service Building and Social Facility was laid with a ceremony.

The foundation-laying ceremony of the Samsun Bar Association Service Building and Social Facility, which will have a closed area of 3,970 square meters, took place across the Mert River in the Canik district. The ceremony began with a moment of silence and the reading of the National Anthem, followed by protocol speeches and the laying of the foundation with prayers for the new service building. Emphasizing that many lawyers and lawyer candidates will benefit from the new service building, the President of the Turkish Bar Association, Attorney R. Erinç Sağkan, said, “We are not just building a building. In this building, hundreds, thousands of intern lawyers and colleagues will leave after adding to their legal education with the in-service training they receive and the internship training they undergo. They will fight in this city and in all 81 provinces of Turkey to achieve justice for a woman who has been subjected to violence, to be by the side of a child in need of help, and to ensure that a worker whose labor has been exploited receives their due. In this sense, the service buildings of bar associations are actually buildings with a soul. The building in Samsun has a much more significant importance. As we all know, this is the city where the first steps of liberation and the founding of the Republic were taken. As we leave behind the hundredth year of the Republic, the service building of our Samsun Bar Association, which is contemporaneous with the Republic, will be the roof under which the lawyers who will fight the most for the protection and preservation of the legal revolution, which is the most important revolution of the Republic, will gather,” he said.

President Doğan: “The dream established for years has come true today”

Pointing out that the lawyers and administrators in the bar have dreamed of this day for years, Samsun Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Attorney Halit Doğan said, “There has been a dream that our bar presidents have created together for years about lawyers gaining their own independent buildings at the Samsun Bar Association. Today, it is truly pleasing for us to be holding the foundation-laying ceremony together with our valuable presidents. There is probably no need for an office. It has become a building where everyone can even fulfill their office needs. I really thank the President of the Bar Association for their efforts. You have brought a beautiful work to Samsun. This work will not only be important for Samsun but also for the Black Sea. Samsun is an important city among the cities with a coast to the Black Sea. The Samsun Bar is an important bar. It is significant in terms of both the number and its influence, power, and presidency. I express my gratitude for your support and the value you have given,” he said.

“The Samsun Bar Association finally finds its own home”

Emphasizing that thousands of lawyers and hundreds of interns will work for justice in this building, Samsun Bar President Attorney Pınar Gürsel Yıldıran stated, “The Samsun Bar Association, which has been a home for lawyers and a shelter for citizens seeking justice for exactly 101 years, is finally finding its own home. Today, we are laying the foundation of a home that will gather the 2,200 lawyers and 300 interns of the Samsun Bar Association under one roof. In this building, hundreds, thousands of my young colleagues will take an oath to act in accordance with the law, ethics, the honor of the profession, and its rules. Hundreds, thousands of our intern lawyers will learn the art of advocacy and the ethics of the legal profession from their masters at our internship training center,” she said.

After the speeches at the ceremony, the foundation-laying ceremony commenced. Samsun Deputy Governor Emin Çolak, Canik Mayor İbrahim Sandıkçı, and Samsun Chief Public Prosecutor Mehmet Sabri Kılıç, along with lawyers registered with the bar associations in Samsun and surrounding provinces, initiated the foundation-laying process by pressing the mechanism together. The construction of the said service building is targeted to be completed within 400 days, which is 150 days earlier than the planned duration by the contracting company.