Turkish lawyers threaten boycott of Erdogan's courts ceremony

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At least 42 bar associations say they would not attend the event because they believe the ceremony should take place at the Supreme Court building and not the presidential palace.

BOYCOTT. Lawyers threaten to boycott an event if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not hold it at the Supreme Court. File photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP

"These past years have seen judicial independence being seriously undermined... The judiciary is under pressure from the executive," Mehmet Durakoglu, head of the Istanbul bar association, told Agence France-Presse on Sunday, August 18. For many of his more conservative backers, he has brought prosperity and defended Turkey's interests in his decade and a half in power.The opening ceremony for the new judicial year was first held at the presidential palace in 2016 after the failed coup.

"The ceremony taking place in the place of the people would only strengthen judicial independence," the Turkish leader has said.

 

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