In no other country in the world is using the justice so often to defend the President, as is currently the case in Turkey. Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2014, the highest public office took over, there were already thousands of charges. A law Professor from Istanbul has counted them. Not only that, but suit the need of the first man in the state is a record of the police state mentality has become a Daily nuisance. Otherwise, you would not really notice some critical of the government Twitterers who only has a few Hundred Followers. As the employee of a Foundation in Istanbul now because of a single tweet before the court.
acquittals in such proceedings are rare. Thousands of judges and prosecutors since the coup attempt of July 2016, self-accused, you have lost your Job or ended up in jail as alleged terrorist sympathizers. Including like being a lawyer, took office in fact, failure to lift the state from the fishing. But what judge dare not, under such circumstances, an independent judgment, has fear of Job, Livelihood and Reputation? Likes to play the hero?
distrust
The Turkish civil society currently meets more frequently in courtrooms than in any other place. In front of the judge benches, one can ask the question: what is this state actually has so much fear? Certainly the perpetrators of the coup have left from July 2016, a Trauma, they have brought the society out of balance. But Turkey has experienced so many crises and overcome, and rarely has feared the state so the citizens of the country, was entrusted with a neighbor the other so very miss.
Erdogan wanted a new Turkey. In the courtrooms you will not arise.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 25.03.2019, 19:01 PM
