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Turk here. There will be 13 high level judiciary members, 4 of whom will be appointed by president (Erdogan) and rest by majority of assembly (Erdogan's Party).
by ttn 9y ago
Turk here. There will be 13 high level judiciary members, 4 of whom will be appointed by president (Erdogan) and rest by majority of assembly (Erdogan's Party). So forget about independency. They are not even independent at the moment anyways.
- stellar678 9y agoIs there some structural factor that prevents the assembly from being taken by Erdogan's opposition?
- ttn 9y agoIn theory they can. In practice, impossible. Its the culture. We do not vote for representative, we vote for a party and its leader.
- tormeh 9y agoA split opposition and a 10% voting threshold. The opposition would essentially have to lay aside their differences and form an anti-Erdogan party. That's unlikely, because the Kemalists and the Kurds hate each other.
- m00dy 9y agoWho told you that Kemalists and the Kurds hate each other ? Can you give me any source for that ?
- tormeh 9y agoThe Kemalists want one indivisible Turkey with only Turks. The Kurds not only persist in calling themselves Kurds instead of Turks, but they also want to secede. These two points of view don't play nice with each other.
- pknerd 9y agoIf you read a bit, Ataturk also managed things single handedly so should not be an alien concept for Turks
- low_battery 9y agoI had a second look at the proposed changes, there are 2 important ones regarding judicial matters, the change for constitutional court is mainly removing 2 members selected from military judges. The change regarding high judicial court is more complex but i don't see an alarming difference between the new and existing, could you point to me? http://anayasadegisikligi.barobirlik.org.tr/Anayasa_Degisikligi.aspx http://anayasadegisikligi.barobirlik.org.tr/Anayasa_Degisikl...
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