Crime and punishment are personal

One of the plotters of the July 15 attempted coup, the Air Forces "imam" of the Fethullah gang, Adil Öksüz, somehow cannot be found. But Öksüz's mother-in-law Hatice Yıldırım has been arrested. You must have seen her photos in the papers; she is an elderly lady in a wheelchair. It is not clear which stage of the coup planning she was involved in. 

Apparently, when Öksüz could not be caught, they took his mother-in-law. 

The passport of Dilek Dündar, the wife of journalist Can Dündar, was seized at the airport when she was set to fly to Germany. Dilek Dündar is not being prosecuted on any charge. She is not associated with any crime, but her passport can be seized because she is Can Dündar's wife and he was prosecuted because of stories about trucks belonging to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). 

The universal principles of penal law are once more being disregarded. There cannot be any crime or any punishment without a previous penal law (nullum crimen).  

In our criminal code, there are no crimes about being the wife or mother-in-law of a person charged with a crime. 

On the other hand, crime and punishment are personal. Nobody can be punished because of a crime committed by somebody else. In Latin: Nemo punitur pro alieno delieto! 

These kinds of practices demonstrate that Turkey is fast moving away from rule of law. This can only serve the coup plotters. The victimization stories created by such practices will be very popular in the West.  
I am really suspicious about whether crypto Fethullahists are behind this business. 

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