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The former head of Turkey?s top science body and two of its employees were detained on April 14 for hiring an employee with a fake diploma, amid allegations of illegal wire-tapping targeting senior government officials.

Turkey?s top judicial body has initiated a minor purge in the judiciary, replacing 27 judges and prosecutors, including seven rapporteurs at the Constitutional Court.

A decree replacing 27 judges and prosecutors at judicial and administrative courts was released by the 1st Chamber of the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) late on March 5.

The outgoing president of Turkey?s Constitutional Court has criticized politicians? extraordinary ?interest? in the court?s agenda, opting to leave office a month before he was scheduled to retire.

The outgoing president of Turkey?s Constitutional Court has criticized politicians? extraordinary ?interest? in the court?s agenda, opting to leave office a month before he was scheduled to retire.

Both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the head of Turkey?s Constitutional Court have denied there is any tension between them, after joining a luncheon hosted by the former at the presidential palace in Ankara.

A new and broad police operation into the so-called ?parallel structure,? members of the Gülen movement that had allegedly infiltrated the judiciary and security forces, was launched on Jan. 20.

The separation of powers between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary is an indispensable principle in any democracy, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland has said during a visit to Turkey, adding that the country?s Constitutional Court must remain free.

In a key ruling, the Constitutional Court has refused to hear individual complaints filed for the lowering of the 10 percent parliamentary threshold in the Turkish election system.

Constitutional Court head Ha?im K?l?ç had stated in late November that the Court was working on applications and will make a decision in two to three weeks.