Turks Trust Armed Forces, But Not The Courts
A recent survey by Istanbul Bilgi University’s Human Rights Law Research Center revealed that 60 percent of Turks believe the decisions of Turkish courts are unjust. The survey also showed that women, lower income groups and people with less education tend to have more confidence in the courts than others.
The media is the least trusted institution, while the Turkish Armed Forces, followed by the Constitutional Court, were the most trusted. The media, however, is a major source of information about how the justice system works in Turkey. (click for article)
The statistic that the Constitutional Court is one of Turkey’s most trusted institutions stands in contrast to the poll results I reported in my April 12th post, that showed that the majority of Turkey’s population sees the Constitutional Court case against the ruling AKP in general as “political”, rather than “legal” . 68 percent disapprove of the case. Does this mean that the AKP closure case has shaken people’s faith in the Constitutional Court? Or is this dissonance built into the populace’s expectations of their institutions (trust the institution, but disapprove of its individual actions)? Or are the polls wrong?
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