Kemal Kerinçsiz

{{Short description|Turkish lawyer (born 1960)}}

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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,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5366048.stm|title=Turkish novelist case collapses|work=BBC News Europe|first=Sarah|last=Rainsford|date=21 September 2006|access-date=11 August 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav091906a.shtml|title=Liberals and Nationalists in Turkey Face Off Again Over Freedom of Speech|work=EurasiaNet|access-date=11 August 2008|date=16 September 2006|first=Nicolas|last=Birch}} and the late Hrant Dink{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=2743324&story_id=8820431|title=Turkish nationalism on the march|newspaper=The Economist|date=8 May 2007|access-date=11 August 2008}}) for "insulting Turkishness". He heads the Büyük Hukukçular Birliği ("Great Union of Jurists"), which is responsible for most Article 301 trials.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901051010-1112777,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220112707/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901051010-1112777,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 February 2007|title=Continental Divide|magazine=Time|date=2 October 2005|access-date=11 August 2008|first=Andrew|last=Purvis}}

On 5 August 2013, Kerinçsiz was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment as part of the Ergenekon trials.{{cite news|work=Today's Zaman |date=5 August 2013 |url=http://todayszaman.com/news-322781-long-sentences-for-ergenekon-suspects-life-for-ex-army-chief.html |title=Long sentences for Ergenekon suspects, life for ex-army chief |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806033514/http://todayszaman.com/news-322781-long-sentences-for-ergenekon-suspects-life-for-ex-army-chief.html |archive-date=6 August 2013 }} He was released together with several other suspects in March 2014.{{cite web |title=Art arda tahliyeler |date=10 March 2014 |work=Haber Turk |url=http://www.haberturk.com/gundem/haber/928447-art-arda-tahliyeler}}