The chief prosecutor of Istanbul’s Anatolian district, İsmail Uçar, admits that corruption is rampant in Turkey’s second largest judicial district and accuses the chief justice of leading the system. He says gangs are forming within the judiciary, which he likens to cancer, adding that surgery and chemotherapy are needed.
Former top prosecutor Kocaman is now accused of obstructing a murder investigation in favour of a wealthy businessman and his son, who allegedly spent a staggering 30 million Turkish Liras to get away with murder.
A mobster who admitted to bribing chief prosecutor and police chiefs exposes deep rot in the Turkish judiciary.
Turkey Human Rights Blog looks at the extent of corruption in the Turkish judiciary, where corrupt judges and prosecutors are getting richer while cracking down on government critics. The latest example is the Okan Bato case.
Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors coerced the dismissed judges and prosecutors signing undated resignation letters by threatening them with social death.
The question is presently not whether the Turkish judiciary, including civil and criminal courts and the prosecution, has been corrupted to the core, but whether this corruption can ever be amended, even with the possibility of Erdogan and his government being replaced in the next year’s general election.