Founder of Gun+Partners law firm, Chairman of Better Justice Association, Vice Chairman of TURKONFED
On one hand the accelerating race for the local elections on March 31st seems more like a competition to get a share of the corrupt municipal pie than to serve the public. On the other, judicial authorities, not to mention the government, refuse to comply with a judicial decision just as the Court of Cassation
The game played at the highest levels of the state has come to the end long expected of it. After a series of forceless actions and decisions contrary to law, at the session of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly (TBMM) on January 30, 2024, chaired by one of the deputy & acting Speaker Bekir Bozdağ, the
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suggestion to lower the presidential election threshold from 50+1 percent to 40+1 percent and to make it a single round, further clarifies that his easy re-election in 2028 is the main aim of the discourse on a new and civil constitution he started on the 12th of September at the Ulucanlar museum.
Turkiye’s Constitutional Court (AYM) announced in the Official Gazette on October 10, 2023 in its Keser Altıntaş decision that it will cease to review and will dismiss individual applications related to violations of the right to be tried within a reasonable time. The decision of the AYM General Council dated 25 July, with 9 in
Could the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who failed to crack open the “once in a century window of opportunity” before Turkey, be looking to permanently close this window after shattering the opposition, intent on dismantling them, in the 2023 elections, and turn Turkey into an elective autocracy where the elections, too, are unjust?
On the 12th of September at the Legal Policies Council workshop at the Ulucanlar Prison Museum, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he had had the draft constitution he will present to the opposition and the public, prepared by the presidency’s bureaucrats. But Erdogan’s statement: “Last year we organised a series of workshops with the
According to polling Metropoll’s post-election survey, 23 percent of those who voted for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s coalition and 29 percent of those who voted for the opposition want another party they could vote for. Truly, there is a part of society that is unhappy with the way the country’s progress in the rule of
The business world, even those provide a life-long support to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan though crushed by the surging inflation pinned their hopes on Türkiye’s new appointees, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek and CBRT Governor Hafize Gaye Erkan, as the saviour of country’s economy from its deep-running issues. The reason for this hope was the
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has emerged as the winner of the second round of presidential elections, and the public as the loser to politicians as they were forced to choose between two autocratic leaders who dictated themselves as presidential candidates. Instead of change and an improved political arrangement they have been made hostage for another 5