BY HASAN PULUR
HURRIYET- As everybody knows, political rulers don't get along well with the judiciary. Political rulers want the judiciary to act in line with their desire . On the other hand, the judiciary's main concern isn't what the rulers want, but legal procedures.
It's not enough that judicial decisions are in line with the law. For political rulers can pass laws backing their views, but these laws aren't always legal. For this reason, in modern democracies, there are constitutional courts...
In Ankara last week, the government and opposition were arguing. The issue is how judges and prosecutors will be appointed, how lawyers who have been practicing for five years will pass from the front of the bench to behind it.
The government wants first a written exam and then an interview.
The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) finds the idea of an interview dangerous. Because the interviewers, who are Justice Ministry bureaucrats, may direct the interviews as they like and assign the candidates as they wish.
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For the time being, the problem seems to have been settled amicably. How? They agreed that in the interviews, the ability, culture and understanding of modern life of the lawyers with at least five years' experience will be taken into consideration.
Do you believe such tricks?
Politicians think that judges and prosecutors are officers of the justice minister. But they are making a mistake. Although judges are often pushed into a corner between their wallet and their consciences, according to an old saying of a chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals, most of them resist to the end.
The Republic of Turkey mostly owes its existence to the judiciary.