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Following a week of legal pressure on opposition actors, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul and potentially the strongest political opponent to President Erdoğan.

Furthermore, the Commission advised ensuring that the HSK Chairperson is an impartial individual elected by the members themselves, limiting the Chairperson's powers, and subjecting all Council decisions to judicial review. It also called for the elimination of personnel transfers between the Ministry of Justice and the Council, preventing political influence over appointments of the General Secretary, inspectors, and rapporteur judges and increasing the transparency of the Council's internal operations.

While public revenues represent an expense for taxpayers, public expenditures serve as a source of income for other groups. Considering the inefficiency of public spending, the effectiveness of this resource transfer is highly questionable. These issues collectively push us further away from a market economy, steering the system toward one where income and income distribution are centrally determined from the top.

A delegation from pro-Kurdish DEM Party were allowed a rare visit to Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish paramilitary group PKK.

The peace process now has the support of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader. A rare visit by leaders of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party to Öcalan paves the way for further dialogue.