{"id":7339,"date":"2022-08-25T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dahaiyiyargi.org\/?page_id=7339"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:43:48","slug":"turkeys-middle-democracy-issues-and-how-to-solve-them","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dahaiyiyargi.org\/en\/turkeys-middle-democracy-issues-and-how-to-solve-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Middle-Democracy Issues And How To Solve Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Turkey\u2019s Middle-Democracy
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Judiciary, Accountability And Fair Representation<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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As Turks, we owe a debt of gratitude to Atat\u00fcrk and his fellow fighters. It was they who set out to raise our nation to the highest standard of civilization and prosperity. Starting almost from scratch, Turkey has succeeded in joining the leading economies of the world and established a bedrock of democratic governance.<\/p>

Turkish society has readily adopted \u2013 and, indeed, now presses the government for \u2013 that democratic governance. Yet democracy remains inconsistent in Turkey. Our economy suffers ups and downs depending on the foresightedness of our government, and it is by no means easy to make a long-term plan to enhance the nation\u2019s welfare in a sustainable fashion. Yet the occasions on which it has failed or been interrupted have served as lessons from which we can learn.<\/p>

In essence, however, Turkey\u2019s challenge is not actually the protection of democracy but the prevailing rule of law over the judiciary \u2013 both in establishing accountability and for fair representation. When this fundamental problem is solved, the problem of maintaining democracy will also be automatically resolved.<\/p>

The non-accountability of the judiciary and civil servants is one of the greatest issues we are facing in the rule-of-law field, and the cause of the many paradoxes afflicting our country. It is wrong to restrict the independence of the judiciary, of course, but it\u2019s now believed to be justified because the judiciary is not accountable. Making civil servants accountable to the judiciary only with the prior permission of their superiors is also wrong, but the judiciary\u2019s non-accountability offers easy justification. To put it another way, the view that the judiciary is not accountable compromises not only its own independence, but also the accountability of executive power and of public officers, and, as a result, deviations from the rule and supremacy of law are believed to be justified.<\/p>

This is the paradox, the pressing problem that Turkey must promptly solve. And the solution starts with assuring accountability in the judiciary and in public administration in general via a re-assertion of the rule of law.<\/p>

The purpose of this book is to identify Turkey\u2019s fundamental problems, to demonstrate the root causes of those problems via the interspersion throughout of references to many legal texts, and to propose suggestions for their solution, thereby plotting a simple road map to democracy. Its aim is to be the most comprehensive of all the works created to date on the democratisation of our nation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Structural Reforms Summit<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cTurkey\u2019s Dilemma:\nMiddle Income and Middle Democracy Traps\u201d<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cStructural Reforms Summit\u201d, jointly organized by TURKONFED and Better Justice Association featured prominent Turkish and international experts including Alvaro Rodriguez<\/strong>, UN Turkey Officer in Charge, Bernard Brunet<\/strong>, European Commission Head of Unit Turkey and Prof. Dr. Erin\u00e7 Yeldan<\/strong>, Professor of Economics at Bilkent University to share analysis and foresights on the subject matter of “Middle Income and Middle Democracy Traps”.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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1. An Effective Judiciary<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A country\u2019s judiciary has a crucial role to play in how it is run. If it is independent of political influence, well-managed and properly resourced, it can be a vital tool in holding the government to account. At the moment, Turkey\u2019s judiciary is unable to do this. As a whole, the system cannot work effectively enough and there is a large backlog of cases. In addition, current rules allow the government to exercise too much power over the judiciary and it is difficult to hold them to account. As such, public trust in the judiciary is currently very low.<\/p>\n

In order to improve our country\u2019s judiciary, I propose:<\/p>\n