Recent statements made by the Supreme Court and the Council of State targeting the government show that they are biased in cases that involve the AKP and are no longer independent, the party’s deputy chairman Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat said Friday.
Addressing a meeting of chairmen of the AKP’s provincial branches, Firat said the statements made by the two senior courts, coming at a time when no criticisms were being leveled at them indicate they lacked impartiality.
“Certainly, the rule of law is the basis of a democratic regime and democracy requires that everyone respect that law. Efforts to use the law as a medium for politicizing issues, reveals that the law is being manipulated on matters as it suits,” he said.
The AKP faces the possibility of being closed and 70 of its leading members banned from political activity in a case to be heard by the Constitutional Court in which a senior prosecutor has claimed the government is seeking to subvert the secular regime in Turkey.
