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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Turkey looks to Germany in improving controversial secret witness system

Turkey looks to Germany in improving controversial secret witness system

ISTANBUL

The Turkish government has stepped into action to amend controversial aspects of the much-debated “secret witness” system by taking German practices into consideration.

The Interior and Justice Ministries have launched studies tackling how to adapt Turkish regulations into the German system, aiming to avert speculations about the system that earned legal basis in 2008, parallel with Ergenekon investigations, as the daily Milliyet reported.

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