Posted on 09/05/2018 8:19:50 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
In a development that cast further doubt over the independence of the judiciary in Turkey, judges and prosecutors from one of the top courts in the country were taken to the presidential palace in Ankara by bus for a ceremony marking the inauguration of the new judicial year on Monday.
In past years, ceremonies marking the opening of the new judicial year were held in judicial buildings in a symbol of the independence of the judiciary from politics. However, this ceremony began to be held at the presidential palace in Ankara in 2017 upon an order from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The ceremony marking the opening of the 2018-2019 judicial year was held at the presidential palace for the second time on Monday. It was organized by the presidency of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
According to a report in the Cumhuriyet daily, there was huge attendance at the ceremony because the presidency of the Supreme Court of Appeals had sent a message to some 1,000 judges and prosecutors who work at the top court, saying that attendance at the ceremony was obligatory.
These judges and prosecutors traveled to the presidential palace in Ankara’s Beştepe neighborhood by bus. Photos of the judges and prosecutors going to Beştepe in buses led to claims on social media that they were acting like the servants of Erdoğan rather than the members of an independent judiciary.
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The Turkish economy implodes, they rattle sabers with Syria (and Russia?), the leader commands the judges to the palace and the world is very weary of the antics of Erdogan.
Assad, Russia and Iran are scheduled to meet, without Turkey.
The US quietly helps the Kurds secure the last place in Northern Syria where ISIS remains (other than Turk controlled Idlib and Afrin).
What could possibly go wrong?
Turkish Adalet went out the window with the last wisps of Ataturkism, swept away by the authoritarian gusts of Erdoganism.
Accurate statement.
But less than a year ago, 1 million gathered near Istanbul after a march from Ankara under the banner Adalet. It was a well know Kemalist who lead it. At the time Erdogan did nothing.
Lately he has been bold enough to begin picking on them. In normal times in Turkey, they would have ended Erdogan.
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