How will pardon affect the economy of Turkey?

Bakhcheli, trying to gain concrete benefits from the open support of the AKP, and stating that "prisons are full, and rebels can begin", in fact, aims to free his supporters, and not filled prisons. He even "did not shun" to visit the mafia leader in the prison hospital, calling him "my friend nationalist".

Despite the fact that the law on pardon could not be passed until June 24, the Party of Nationalist Movement (PNM) continues to insist on its application. Recently it became known that the draft law on pardon was prepared by a deputy from this party, who had previously been a lawyer for the mafia leader. Despite the fact that the AKP has a cautious attitude to the question of a broad amnesty before the public, nevertheless, no one doubts how to reach a backstage agreement with the PNM.

One of the concerns of the AKP in this matter is how a general pardon will affect the party"s rating: 1) Broad mercy laws have rarely been passed in Turkey"s history. 2) The governments that made this decision lost during the elections. The last example - on December 22, 2000, the Democratic Left Party, the Nationalist Movement Party and the Ana Vatan Party passed a law of pardon, and as a result lost the elections on November 3, 2002, having failed to overcome the 10% barrier. Since then, Turkey has not passed a law on broad amnesty.

The draft of the new law on pardon, which was initiated by the PNM, is increasingly being discussed not from the point of view of "who can use pardon", but from the point of view of "who should".

It seems that unconditional support for two years by the AKP from the Party of the Nationalist Movement was to release its supporters from prison by adopting a law on broad amnesty. Opposition parties and the public are interested in such issues as "what crimes will pardon affect", "after a certain time the prisons will be filled again". Thus, the release of some mafia leaders (for example, Sedat Pecker), under the condition that they supported the ruling party, caused an increase in tensions in society.

Can the release of such people from imprisonment through the pardon, that Devlet Bakhchaly is seeking so much, lead to interethnic strife? Apparently, the PNM leader, Bakhcheli, is trying to free his supporters, arguing that "rebel can happen in prisons", and thus consolidate "his nationalists" around him.

Would not such a harsh atmosphere for a country, undergoing a serious economic crisis, create problems with foreign investments? It seems that the PNM does not take this into account, keeping the issue of universal pardon on the agenda, as it were, forcing the AKP to do so. The party of the Nationalist Movement does not take into account that the widespread pardon will negatively affect the municipal elections scheduled for March, and the AKP also is trying to distance from these thoughts.

If to consider the anatomy of the pardons carried out in Azerbaijan from the point of view of the bill on extensive pardon in Turkey, you come across a picture that has no analogue. A few pardons per year carried out in Azerbaijan create the impression that there is no need for the country either in the prosecutor"s office or in the courts. The police arrest, and then itself write the charge and sentence without causing any trouble to the prosecutor"s office or the courts. Convicts are unhappy with the majority of sentences. So the only hope remains for a presidential decree of pardon. Turkey has not yet brought its legal system to such a point, but continues, remaining true to the traditions, to carry out procedures for adopting a law on pardon in the Majlis. However, Turkey is also rapidly moving towards presidential pardon decrees ...