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Turkey lashes out at European Parliament report calling for EU sanctions against justice minister
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey on Wednesday rejected a European Parliament report calling for possible sanctions against the country’s justice minister and other officials it accuses of violating human rights and freedoms.
The annual report approved at a plenary session earlier in the day urges the European Union to consider freezing the assets of Turkish officials, including Akin Gurlek, the former Istanbul prosecutor general who was promoted to justice minister earlier this year.
The Parliament report presents Gurlek as a key player “in the state’s repressive machine”, saying his promotion was an indication “that throughout his career he has always been a political actor following a political agenda”.
In a strongly worded statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry rejected the report, accusing it of unfairly targeting the justice minister.
“We categorically reject the distortion of legal processes carried out by the independent Turkish judiciary and its targeting of our Minister of Justice with baseless accusations,” the statement read.
As Istanbul’s prosecutor general, Gurlek presided over high-profile trials against several members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP — legal proceedings that the opposition has long denounced as politically motivated.
Hundreds of officials from CHP-run municipalities have been arrested in corruption investigations. Among them was Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – widely seen as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival – who was arrested last year.
More recently, a court ruling removed CHP leader Ozgur Ozel from office, replacing him with his largely unpopular predecessor, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Critics denounced the move as an attempt by the government to neutralize the opposition.
Erdogan’s government, however, insists that the judiciary acts independently.
It was unclear whether EU officials would want to anger Ankara by sanctioning a senior government official. Turkey is a key partner of the EU in the fight against migration and an important NATO ally.
The European Parliament’s annual reports aim to assess Turkey’s progress in its EU accession negotiations, which have been stalled by concerns about its democratic backsliding.
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