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Erdoğan's Judiciary

01.08.2014 15:28

Turkey's judicial system received yet another blow with the detention of 49 senior police officers in a government-backed operation last week. After remaining in custody for eight days and being subjected to various human rights violations, 38 of the police officers were released, while 11 of them were arrested earlier this week. The testimony of the 17 police officers has not been received by the court. The officers are accused of spying and forging official documents, but the prosecutors working on the case have not provided any evidence to support these accusations. This operation against the police officers is the latest episode in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's struggle with the country's judicial system, which began following the Dec. 17 graft operation that implicated some senior government members. The T24 news portal's Hasan Cemal says Prime Minister Erdoğan's coup that began on Dec. 17 is still in progress, leaving no room for things such as an independent judiciary, t

Turkey's judicial system received yet another blow with the detention of 49 senior police officers in a government-backed operation last week. After remaining in custody for eight days and being subjected to various human rights violations, 38 of the police officers were released, while 11 of them were arrested earlier this week.

The testimony of the 17 police officers has not been received by the court. The officers are accused of spying and forging official documents, but the prosecutors working on the case have not provided any evidence to support these accusations. This operation against the police officers is the latest episode in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's struggle with the country's judicial system, which began following the Dec. 17 graft operation that implicated some senior government members.

The T24 news portal's Hasan Cemal says Prime Minister Erdoğan's coup that began on Dec. 17 is still in progress, leaving no room for things such as an independent judiciary, the separation of powers or democracy in Turkey. He says that Erdoğan, using the allegation of a coup attempt by the so-called "parallel state," has staged his own coup that is leading to grave consequences for the country. “This is Erdoğan's fear of democracy. He is afraid of a democratic state ruled by law, because he knows very well that his government's involvement in corruption and bribery will be investigated thoroughly in such a state. He is afraid of a democratic state ruled by law because he knows that such a step is a great obstacle to his march to one-man rule. He is afraid of such a state because he knows that he will be held to account for his actions in such a state,” Cemal writes. However, he thinks the Erdoğan era, during which democracy and the law have received fatal blows, will not be forgotten, and its actions will be remembered to the very end. “Even if Erdoğan becomes the president or the single man [to rule the country], this nation's struggle for democracy and law will continue. Everyone should know this,” adds Cemal.

The Bugün daily's Tarık Toros says the witch hunt Erdoğan launched in the judiciary after the Dec. 17 graft operation was a great mistake, designed to suppress members of the judiciary via ungrounded and false accusations under the name of fighting the so-called "parallel state." He likens the fight against the "parallel state" today to the fight against religious fundamentalism during the Feb. 28, 1997 postmodern military coup, during which many people, including members of the judiciary and bureaucracy, were unjustly accused of being involved in religious fundamentalism. The only difference between now and then, according to Toros, is the fact that then-Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Türk was strongly against the witch hunt in the judiciary, while current Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ is part of the witch hunt.

GÜNAY HİLAL AYGÜN (Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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