May 27, 2012
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Can the judiciary be objective despite rotten apples?
18 November 2009 / SABAH EMRE AKÖZ,
A great hullabaloo has broken out at the news that “phones of members of the judiciary are being tapped.”
If Turkey is in fact a nation of law, in other words, if the laws apply to everyone and if the laws allow wiretapping to occur in the name of nabbing those who are guilty, then what exactly is wrong with tapping phones if the procedure is followed as mandated by law? Is there a law that says, “No judges or prosecutors can be monitored or have their phones tapped”? Why is all of this anathema to the independence of the judiciary? To the contrary in fact: In order to shore up the independence and objectivity of the judiciary, is it not necessary to identify and then remove the rotten apples that operate within it?
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