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AKP’s Coup Against Judiciary
Columnist Selahattin Onkibar of the nationalist Turkish daily Yenicag wrote that the ruling AKP had first filled the ranks of the ministries with partisan bureaucrats, then it invaded all state institutions and associations. They created their own media, and their own rich bourgeoisie. AKP is here to build a new state, new structure and a new society in its image. They want the entire Turkey. Only two institutions are not yet taken over – one of them being the [higher levels of the] judiciary. To take care of that they hastily drafted a judiciary reform package and without disclosing it to anyone in Turkey, they sent it to the EU capital for its endorsement. Their plan is to dismantle Turkey’s independent judiciary and tie it to their government. They are devising a coup against the judiciary under the EU cover. The High Constitutional Court is the first in line. AKP will significantly increase the number of its justices, so it can create a majority. Jurisdictions of the high administrative court Council of State [Danistay] and the Supreme Court of Appeals [Yargitay] will be limited. The judiciary is the target and they even have a timeline planned for paralyzing it. The AKP has pushed the button for an anti-judiciary coup and the closure case filed against it may be the last act of defense and means to stop AKP’s invasion of all constitutional institutions. Source: Yenicag, Turkey, May 13, 2008
Posted at: 2008-05-14
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