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tapping telephones of judicial offices against human rights, official |
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Friday, 13 November 2009The head of Turkey's Council of State said on Friday that tapping telephones of judicial offices was against human rights.
Mustafa Birden, the president of the Council of State, said that judges and prosecutors, who had an important role in preventing violations of human rights and freedoms, were themselves facing such violation of rights.
"This not only harms independence of judiciary and guarantee of judges, but also it cannot be associated with respect to human rights and the concept of a democratic country," Birden told AA correspondent.
Birden's remarks came after newspapers wrote that telephone conversations of the Supreme Court of Appeals had been tapped.
"Tapping judicial officials, following them, publishing and broadcasting their images and stories about them are nothing but an effort to take the judiciary under control and influence it," Birden also said.
On Thursday, Fethi Simsek, the head of the Telecommunication Communication Department of the Information Technologies and Communication Agency (BTK), said that the telephones of the Supreme Court of Appeals had not been tapped.
Also commenting on the same issue, Hasan Gerceker, the president of the Supreme Court of Appeals, asked the concerned people to refrain from illegal acts, and behaviors that would harm the independence of judiciary and contradict the principle of separation of forces. |
Friday, 13 November 2009
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