Turkey has started issuing arrest warrants for the dead as a new tool of suppression - Nordic Monitor

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Turkey has started issuing arrest warrants for the dead as a new tool of suppression - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a shocking and politically motivated posthumous legal action, Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for a deceased critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while keeping dozens of previous warrants against him active. This unprecedented move marks a disturbing new phase in the extreme politicization of Turkey’s judicial system, where even the deceased are not exempt from the state’s abuse of power. Fethullah Gülen, a…