Supreme court of appeals harshly reacts to efforts to influence judiciary

President's Committee of the Supreme Court of Appeals issued a written statement yesterday and lashed out at critics to the judiciary made from inside and outside. The latest developments are enough to prove that the government tries to create a pro-executive judiciary, said the statement adding that the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was a corporate case and supported chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya who filed the lawsuit. "The defendants and their supporters ignored the fact that the indictment was institutional, and they attempted to make the Chief Public Prosecutor subject to reactions and enmity of the people through illogical, unlawful remarks and articles and acts most of which constitute crimes in themselves," it said. " Stressing that since a year and especially recently, systematic attacks on the judiciary undermine the Republic's founding values, the statement added that methods and intentions were more frequently tried recently to influence the court to take a result in favor in the case and by complaining about judges, targeting them, even getting help from foreign individuals and institutions.