Ankara prosecutor Bülent Yücetürk has resigned from his job to enter politics for the upcoming elections, accusing the judicial system of being “reminiscent of Hitler’s Germany,” according to the Sputnik news website.
“The Turkish Republic has entered a crisis of law unlike any in its history,” Yücetürk said in his announcement. “We are living in a period when courts’ verdicts are not being decided by the courts themselves.”
A former member of the Judges and Prosecutors Association(YARSAV), Yücetürk says the problems in the judiciary are far deeper-rooted than this, complaining that it has “lost its conscience and surrendered its might to a single power.”
Following the decision, he also appeared as a guest on a radio show, arguing that “Hitler told jurists in Germany to make their decisions according to what he would do in their place. Prosecutors in Turkey are acting somewhat similarly.”
