carte blanche <\/em>to do as they please with the fundamental principles of the country\u2019s constitution. They were not declaring their loyalty to the regime. They were there to safeguard the dignity, impartiality and independence of their country\u2019s institutions.<\/p>\nWith the judiciary no longer fully able to perform its functions independently of the government and free from political pressure, there is no hope that Turkey will return to anything resembling normality.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of dismissals as well as thousands of arrests since the 15 July coup attempt are awaiting due process.<\/p>\n
There are legal and diplomatic battles to be fought in other countries, trying to extradite those accused of plotting the coup.<\/p>\n
The use of the State of Emergency law to crack down on free speech has already made Turkey the world\u2019s top jailer of journalists.<\/p>\n
Yet, with every passing day, Turkey\u2019s commitment to the rule of law and fundamental freedoms seems to be weakening, while the bridge of understanding with the rest of the world slowly crumbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The sight of the heads of supreme justice bodies, judges and prosecutors giving a standing ovation to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his opulent new palace will go down in history as a dark day for Turkey\u2019s already bruised democracy. This year\u2019s ceremony for the opening of the judicial year on 1 September was held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28729,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28726\/revisions\/28729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}