High judiciary members joined President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in celebrations for Ahilik week in Kırşehir province on Friday, raising another question on the independency of the judiciary.
The heads of Supreme Court of Appeals, Council of State and Court of Accounts had also harvested tea along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his visit to Rize province last Saturday.
High judiciary members, including the heads of Supreme Court of Appeals, Council of State and Court of Accounts, harvested tea along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his visit to Rize province last Saturday.
A video showing Erdoğan and the judiciary members harvesting tea in President’s hometown, Rize caused some critics to question the independency of the judiciary in Turkey.
Staunchly pro-government Akşam daily has been ordered to pay compensation to an opposition deputy for printing “fabricated” Twitter conversations of him with a journalist which it claimed indicated a plan to “assassinate” the daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The US State Department’s annual human rights report on Wednesday strongly criticized Turkish government’s growing pressure on the media and its interference with freedom of expression as well as politically-motivated cases launched against critics.
The US State Department released its Human Rights Report for 2015 on April 13 in which it listed human rights problems across the world. In its report on Turkey, the State Department multiple provisions in the law created the opportunity for the government to restrict freedom of expression, the press, and the internet during 2015.
Twitter user known by the pseudonym Fuat Avni, who has revealed many government-backed police operations and shady plans to the public, has claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered a plot that aims to show the faith-based Gülen movement linked to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
In a statement that came as a confirmation of claims suggesting that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is eroding the principle of the separation of powers, a deputy from the AK Party has said his government has control over the legislative, judicial and executive branches.
The Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM)The draft law on the Protection of Personal Data — which envisages granting sweeping new powers to the intelligence services allowing them to process and archive personal data and threatens the flow of data between Turkey and the EU, has been accepted in parliament.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on people to report sympathisers of GülenMovement to police, accusing the movement of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt.
An ever-growing government [genocide] crackdown against the Gulen movement knows no bounds with an İzmir based-teacher who has been fighting leukemia and his pregnant wife, also a teacher, being held behind bars for days.
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