Constitutional Court of Turkey rejects CHP’s appeal on annulment of decrees
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected main opposition party CHP’s appeal for the annulment of the 2nd statutory decree passed under state of emergency.
While the court has based its reason of rejection on ‘non-competence,’ further information about the decision will be released within the next 10 days.
Giving statements to journalists after the announcement of the court’s decision, CHP Deputy Chair Levent Gök criticized the decision strongly and said: “Of course, we don’t know the actual reasoning of the decision yet; however, there is a similar verdict from the year 1990. It is a scandal that the Constitutional Court has actually made a decision overlooking its own legal precedent. What constitutes a state are its institutions. And, what makes the courts are their ability to establish judicial reliability based on their own precedents.”
CHP officials have been arguing that certain items of the decrees would cause severe complications as their impact would be permanent, although the enforcement of decrees are supposed to be lifted after the state of emergency ends. Also asserting that parts of the decrees did not even have anything to do with FETÖ, CHP highlighted the witch-hunt that has been taking place since the declaration of state of emergency.
Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/aym-den-chp-nin-khk-talebine-ret-131191.html
