Legal community pushes for judicial reform in Northern Cyprus

The north’s supreme court and the Cyprus Turkish bar association have issued a joint demand for a referendum to be held with a view to enacting sweeping reforms to the Turkish Cypriot judicial system. The demands were put forth by supreme court chief justice Bertan Ozerdag and bar association chief Hasan Esendagli, who presented a four-point constitutional reform package to a press conference on Sunday. [ . . . ] The plans foresee that should the reforms be passed into law via a referendum, a transition period between a year and two years would be required for them to fully take effect. Both Ozerdag and Esendagli said a referendum should be held by March at the latest and that it should be held on a day when no other elections are held in the north, with the aim that the referendum be “independent of politics and solely focused on the judiciary”.
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