Following the launch of the new Human Rights Action Plan, the Turkish government introduced the fourth judicial package, purportedly to bring about “priority activities in order to strengthen judicial independence and right to a fair trial, legal foreseeability and transparency, safeguarding the physical and moral integrity and private life of the individual and right to liberty and security,”. Amnesty International believes that the amendments introduced in this judicial package fail to bring Turkey’s laws in line with international human rights law and standards, and rather tinker at the edges of a system marked by the deepening erosion of independence of the judiciary.
