Let's import foreign judges and prosecutors!

What is the country's biggest problem?

Poverty, high inflation, the massive gap in income distribution, the surrender of national education to religious sects…

Count as many as you can.

We have not thousands, but tens of thousands of problems that need to be solved urgently.

But the name of the problem we must solve first, above all else, for all of these to be resolved is “justice…”

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We can list hundreds of items within the problems of justice that require urgent solutions:

The rule of law must be restored, the hand of politics reaching into the judiciary must be broken, judicial independence must be re-established, partisan prosecutors must be sent back to where they came from, court rulings must be so accurate and standard that they are beyond debate, the implementation of Constitutional Court rulings must be ensured, the problem of bribery in the judiciary must be solved…

Well, can all this be done with the current “justice mechanism” and a “cadre of judges and prosecutors who have surrendered to the government, that is, the executive branch?”

No!

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The day before yesterday and yesterday, we witnessed an event that will go down not just in the history of the Turkish judiciary, but in world judicial history:

The Istanbul 48th Criminal Court of First Instance decided the day before yesterday to have former CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu “brought by force” in a trial where he is being prosecuted for allegedly insulting the lawyer of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

All hell broke loose.

Both Kılıçdaroğlu and the new CHP Chairman Özgür Özel reacted very harshly.

The harshest reaction came from CHP Group Deputy Chairman Ali Mahir Başarır, who spoke at the General Assembly of the Parliament.

In this speech, which meant “rebellion against the judiciary” and was definitely a “crime,” Başarır said exactly the following:

“Our Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is the honor and pride of this party. The Istanbul 48th Criminal Court of First Instance has issued a warrant to bring him by force upon the complaint of the President’s lawyers. Let everyone know that there is no power that can force Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to be brought there. If that court can take him, let them come and take him. It’s a shame. Shame, shame!”

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The same court made a “U-turn” yesterday and revoked the “brought by force” decision on its own!

It did this without even waiting for the objection of Kılıçdaroğlu’s lawyers to the first decision.

Well, why?

Of course, I don’t know, but the most likely scenario is that a phone call was made to the judge from “the palace or the Ministry of Justice…”

Or that the judge was scared by the reactions!

Regardless of the reason for which it was taken, this decision should be debated at least as much as the first one…

If he was afraid of the reactions or, as I said, received “instruction calls,” this shows that our judicial institutions have fallen to the “poverty line”; and…

Neither such a judge nor the decisions he makes can be trusted!

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My suggestion in the headline is definitely not a “joke.”

Unfortunately, the state of our courts requires it.

Just as the Turkish Football Federation tried to solve the problem by bringing in foreign VAR referees from abroad when the mistakes of Turkish referees in VAR reached unbelievable levels last year, the same should be done for our courts that conduct all trials “except those involving national security and state secrets.”

Our judges who sign controversial and dubious decisions should be put on “unpaid leave” starting today, and foreign judges to be appointed by the European Court of Justice should be brought in to replace them.

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I repeat:

I am not joking or anything!

While the Turkish judiciary is in this state, the solution is unfortunately to import judges who will not bow to political pressure, who have no expectations from the current government, who will not covet bribes, and who will not yield to threats!

Otherwise, we will lose the trust we have in the law and its supremacy a little more every day, and…

This is a real “survival” issue, that is, an existential problem for the Republic of Turkey!