"Turkey rejects ombudsman law
Published: Friday 26 December 2008 11:47 UTC
Last updated: Friday 26 December 2008 12:05 UTC
Turkey's most senior court has scrapped a law for the appointment of a national ombudsman to hold the government to account for the treatment of its citizens. Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the law was invalid within the context of a case brought against former president Ahmet Necdet Sezer two years ago."
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