MHP member Yıldız: Unfortunately, arrest is applied as a preliminary penalty in our country.

Feti Yıldız, Deputy Chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) responsible for Legal and Election Affairs, stated that the arrest measure was "temporary" and added: "Unfortunately, it is applied as a preliminary penalty in our country."

Yıldız, who did not mention any investigation in his post on X, added, “Social media courts, which are not bound by any moral discipline, are harming the law and justice.”

Yıldız's 'criticism of the judiciary' is as follows:

“ The ‘accusation system’ has been adopted in criminal proceedings.

We learn about the acts attributed to the defendant or defendants, their place, time, evidence and legal qualification, the referral items and the measures applied through the indictment.

In criminal proceedings, the state's right to punish and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the suspect/defendant are in conflict; it is this conflict that shapes the proceedings.

Within this framework, certain fundamental principles of reasoning have been accepted over time. These principles have emerged as the result of a centuries-old tradition.

The source of these principles is not only the constitution, but also the Code of Criminal Procedure and the European Convention on Human Rights.

While evaluations are being made regarding events for which there are not even indictments yet, we see verdicts being issued one after the other on the screens.

Unfortunately, even our legal colleagues do not care about the provision in our Constitution that states that "no one can be considered guilty until proven guilty".

I want to reiterate: like all judicial measures, detention is temporary. Unfortunately, in our country, it is applied as a preliminary penalty.

Social media courts, which are not bound by any moral discipline, are harming the law and justice.”

The "accusation system" has been adopted in criminal proceedings. We learn the place, time, evidence, legal qualifications, prosecution, and measures implemented for the acts attributed to the defendant(s) through the indictment.

In criminal proceedings, the state's right to punish…