A starting point and rebuild from the ground up is needed to solve the problems in Turkey’s governance, a top researcher suggested on April 7.
Speaking at the Transparency International Turkey panel, the general manager of research company KONDA, Bekir Ağırdır, also said problems in Turkey would be solved by “developing a utopia for tomorrow.”
“Turkey has to localize its decision processes. It should draw it from discussion and dispute deliberation by naturalizing politics. Moreover, associations, foundations, police duties and the judiciary should be rebuilt from top to bottom” Ağırdır said.
He also added the country was beginning to comply with more authoritarian governance in the name of escaping uncertainty and complication.
Ağrıdır also vowed that KONDA, Transparency International and other institutions would all do their jobs well and work for a good relationship of trust with society.
Meanwhile, lawyer Turgut Kazan commented on concerns over judicial independence in Turkey, saying that even in corruption impunity was clear.
“There is no implementation of judicial decision even in bare corruptions. Impunity is very clear” Kazan said.
He also pointed to the significance of an independent and qualified judiciary and protection mechanisms in order to apply positive reforms in 2011 about fundamental rights.