Economic Sustainability Requires a Better Judiciary and Civil Constitution Securing Its Sustainable Independence
As our Republic embarks upon her second century in 2023, The Better Justice Association has resolved to work towards a civil constitution that will ensure sustainable independence of the judiciary, the country’s fundamental problems, and especially bring about deep-rooted solutions to governance and economic issues. Our association, to this end, alone if need be […]
Turkish Judicial Reform A to Z
80 Proposals in 8 Chapters
As a contribution to substantially reforming the rule of law and democracy to strengthen our country’s economy, we have formulated 80 concrete proposals, organised into 8 chapters, and have already presented them for the attention of Mr. Lütfi Elvan, the Minister for Treasury and Finance and Mr. Abdülhamit Gül, the Minister of Justice.
Proposal for Establishing SUPREME AUTHORITY of JUSTICE for Judicial Independence
The existing superstructure of the judicial bodies and organisational units does not support solidarity, positive cooperation or efficient service production amongst professionals but, on the contrary, encourages them to disregard and exclude each other, to act alone, and to refrain from corporate and individual accountability, thereby causing a paralysed, contradictory and incompliant relationship between them. […]
CALL FOR Judicial Self-Criticism and Artificial Intelligence Vision for BETTER JUSTICE
From the section “In Conclusion“ It is the age of fighting with viruses; and age of prosperity with technology and Artificial Intelligence. In this new age, viruses and Artificial Intelligence developers will dominate the world. A malfunctioning jurisdiction is like a dangerous virus; by poisoning the legal order, it can corrupt and collapse countries suddenly. […]
Comments and Suggestions on the Draft Amendments to the Judgeship and Prosecutorship Interview Examinations in the 1st Reform Package
As a non-governmental organization advocating the vitality of increasing the quality of the judiciary in our country, we underline the necessity of making the interview phase of the Judgeship and Prosecutorship examinations transparent and accountable and wish to contribute to the elimination of the public’s concern regarding the presence of political influence in the interviews […]
Comments and Suggestions on the Judicial Reform Strategy 2019 Document
We provide solutions to the judicial system in Turkey by identifying its problems via carrying out root cause analysis on many issues since the first day of our Association, hence we make major contributions to our legal system. As a matter of fact, the Judicial Reform Strategy 2019 Document announced by the President of the […]
Turkey’s Dilemma: Middle Income and Middle Democracy Traps
The executive summary of the book “Middle Democracy Problems of Turkey and Ways of Solution” was reprinted as a separate policy report named as “Turkey’s Dilemma: Middle Income and Middle Democracy Traps “. This policy report was adopted by our stakeholder TURKONFED. The policy report includes suggestions for ways out of the middle democracy […]
Turkey’s Middle-Democracy Issues And How To Solve Them
The Supreme Authority of Justice
The Supreme Authority of Justice* should be entrusted with the task of determining and formulating the justice and judiciary policies of the state in line with the needs of the country and the preferences of society, entirely independent from political powers and governments but, on the contrary, by ensuring the representation and participation of all […]
