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UP TO 96 JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS REASSIGNED IN FRESH PURGE WITHIN TURKISH JUDICIARY
13:50 â~@¢ 22.01.14
Ninety-six judges and prosecutors were reassigned in fresh reshuffle
in the Turkish judiciary late Jan. 21, including the Chief Prosecutor
of Ä°zmir Huseyin BaÅ~_ who was conducting a critical graft probe
into fraud claims in the Ä°zmir Harbor, the Hurriyet Daily Newsreports.
BaÅ~_ was appointed to the Black Sea province of Samsun the same day
that main opposition Republican People's Party revealed the minutes of
a conversation revealing that the Justice Ministry Undersecretary Kenan
Ä°pek had called the Ä°zmir prosecutor to halt the probe involving
a relative of the ruling AKP's mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım.
Suleyman Bagrıyanık, the Chief Prosecutor of Adana, where Gendarmerie
forces searched seven trucks belonging to Turkey's intelligence
agency sparking the government's anger, was also among the list of
replaced names.
Turkey's Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) fresh reshuffle
move comes less than a week after another wave of reappointments that
involved the Chief Prosecutor of Istanbul and prosecutors in charge
of graft investigation. It also occurs as the Parliament is debating
on a law that increases the government's control over the institution,
which plays a key role in assignments.
The judicial reshuffles are subsequent to a massive purge within the
Police Department as the government had riposted to the graft probe
accusing the existence of a "parallel state" orchestrating the graft
investigation to damage the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Armenian News - Tert.am
13:50 â~@¢ 22.01.14
Ninety-six judges and prosecutors were reassigned in fresh reshuffle
in the Turkish judiciary late Jan. 21, including the Chief Prosecutor
of Ä°zmir Huseyin BaÅ~_ who was conducting a critical graft probe
into fraud claims in the Ä°zmir Harbor, the Hurriyet Daily Newsreports.
BaÅ~_ was appointed to the Black Sea province of Samsun the same day
that main opposition Republican People's Party revealed the minutes of
a conversation revealing that the Justice Ministry Undersecretary Kenan
Ä°pek had called the Ä°zmir prosecutor to halt the probe involving
a relative of the ruling AKP's mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım.
Suleyman Bagrıyanık, the Chief Prosecutor of Adana, where Gendarmerie
forces searched seven trucks belonging to Turkey's intelligence
agency sparking the government's anger, was also among the list of
replaced names.
Turkey's Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) fresh reshuffle
move comes less than a week after another wave of reappointments that
involved the Chief Prosecutor of Istanbul and prosecutors in charge
of graft investigation. It also occurs as the Parliament is debating
on a law that increases the government's control over the institution,
which plays a key role in assignments.
The judicial reshuffles are subsequent to a massive purge within the
Police Department as the government had riposted to the graft probe
accusing the existence of a "parallel state" orchestrating the graft
investigation to damage the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Armenian News - Tert.am