According to this report, the AKP’s strategy to avoid closure is to amend the constitution “… to take the authority to file a lawsuit against a political party away from the chief prosecutor and hand it to Parliament instead.” In other words, if you are the party in power you can never be held accountable for illegal activity and you get to badger opposition parties with threats of closure if they get out of line.
Seems like a good checks-and-balances setup to me. <– (note: sarcasm)
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