February 13, 2012
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[Financial Times] Prosecutor’s arrest revives judicial-state conflicts
20 February 2010 / ,
The charges brought in December against İlhan Cihaner, a prosecutor in Turkey’s eastern city of Erzincan, did not at first seem the stuff of national crisis.
His colleagues in nearby Erzurum complained he had abused his position, falsifying documents so he could build himself a gazebo in the shared gardens of judiciary housing. But Cihaner’s arrest this week, charged with membership of the so-called Ergenekon group that allegedly plotted to unseat the Islamist-rooted government, has turned a local dispute into high politics. It has exposed deep fractures in Turkey’s judiciary, and revived conflicts between secularist judges and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Bülent Arınç, deputy prime minister, on Thursday accused senior judges who intervened in Cihaner’s defense of playing politics. He said: “Turkey is a democratic state, not one ruled by judges.”
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