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Fatih Gazioğlu v. KKTC Başsavcısı

Court
Yargıtay/Asli Yetki
Jurisdiction
Northern Cyprus (KKTC)
Decided
2026-01-22
AI tool
Implied
Outcome
Leave to apply for certiorari/prohibition granted
Monetary penalty
None reported

What was hallucinated

Fabricated: Doctrinal Work | Applicant alleges the lower court's judgment contains non-existent or 'made-up' scientific authorities and academic citations relied on in reasoning (not produced at trial). || Fabricated: Case Law | Applicant alleges the lower court added or relied upon legal/precedential authorities or case citations in the judgment that were not part of the trial record and may be non-existent.

Details

Applicant alleged that the Lefkoşa Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi altered a signed 31.7.2025 conviction judgment and relied on scientific articles and legal authorities that were nonexistent or not in evidence. The single Yargıç found, on the leave stage and accepting the material as true, that an arguable point existed regarding unauthorized amendment and use of such sources, granted leave to apply for certiorari/prohibition, and directed filing, but declined to stay the underlying proceedings. No finding of fabrication or sanction was made at this stage; fuller review was deferred to the panel.

Sanction teardown · Yargıtay/Asli Yetki, Northern Cyprus (KKTC) · 2026-01-22

Fatih Gazioğlu v. KKTC Başsavcısı

What happened

In Yargıtay/Asli Yetki, Northern Cyprus (KKTC), a filing relied on an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool to help draft legal argument. The court identified the following problems with the citations in that filing:

  • Fabricated (Doctrinal Work)
    Applicant alleges the lower court's judgment contains non-existent or 'made-up' scientific authorities and academic citations relied on in reasoning (not produced at trial).
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    Applicant alleges the lower court added or relied upon legal/precedential authorities or case citations in the judgment that were not part of the trial record and may be non-existent.

Which AI tool

an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool. Note: Charlotin's public database records tool attribution only where a court order, brief, or reporting on the matter states it explicitly; "unidentified" or "implied" means the record indicates AI use but does not name a specific product — we do not guess.

Outcome

Leave to apply for certiorari/prohibition granted

Additional detail

Applicant alleged that the Lefkoşa Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi altered a signed 31.7.2025 conviction judgment and relied on scientific articles and legal authorities that were nonexistent or not in evidence. The single Yargıç found, on the leave stage and accepting the material as true, that an arguable point existed regarding unauthorized amendment and use of such sources, granted leave to apply for certiorari/prohibition, and directed filing, but declined to stay the underlying proceedings. No finding of fabrication or sanction was made at this stage; fuller review was deferred to the panel.

How Citation Safe would have caught this

Citation Safe runs three deterministic layers before a brief is filed: (1) does the citation exist against CourtListener's database of published opinions, (2) if quoted, does that exact language appear in the source, (3) does the cited case actually support the proposition it is cited for. Fabricated case citations fail Layer 1. Fabricated or misattributed quotations fail Layer 2 even when the underlying case is real. Misrepresented holdings — a real case cited for a proposition it does not support — are the target of Layer 3. None of these checks involve asking another language model whether the citation looks right; they are lookups and text-matches against the actual source, which is why a hallucinated citation has to survive a direct lookup against the authoritative source — not another model's opinion — to earn a VERIFIED stamp; our measured false-verify rate is published live at /quality.

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Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/2247/D.1-2026_4.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).

Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/2247/D.1-2026_4.pdf

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