Every day hundreds of accounts are opened on social media with the title of 'Justice'.
Sociologist İsmail Mansur Özdemir, President of International Social, Political and Sectoral Research Platform, Attorney Muharrem Balcı and Attorney Yurdal Kılıçer discussed the search for social justice by speaking to the Milli Gazete daily.
In Turkey, where 68% out of distrust in the judiciary, justice-seeking continues in social media.
“LAW MUST BE OBJECTIVE”
Sociologist İsmail Mansur Özdemir, President of the International Social, Political and Sectoral Research Platform, who made important statements to our newspaper on the subject, said, "Social media has a wide range of action and influence. Having an impact operation in the sensitive areas with the help of social media makes the legitimacy of social media questionable. The most important of these areas is justice. Do the perceptions and approaches in the field of social media law really affect the decisions of justice practitioners? In the field of justice, can politics, judiciary institutions and the main determinants be influenced by social media? This is a topic that has made everyone think for a while. Judges should never deviate from objectivity and form in objectivity when making their decisions."
"BE CAREFUL"
Saying that social media is valuable as a source of news and data, Özdemir says, "When it becomes a pressure area that can affect decisions, it is transformed into an effect and perception operation device, it acts as a pressure device to build decision and judge perceptions. The creation of such a social media impact on judicial elements should be perceived as a major threat to the judiciary. The social perceptions created by a group with a specific approach, ignoring other social priorities by elevating their status more, are served by providing an important appearance with the illusions of social media. Recently, attention should be paid to this kind of media and new media moves to influence judicial institutions and judges at an increasing level."
"ISTANBUL CONVENTION IS COMING TO A POINT THAT WILL AFFECT LEGAL DECISIONS"
Özdemir said, "It is impossible to compensate for wrong decisions to be made in order to influence judicial decisions and judges' attitudes, especially in the context of a sexist approach. I think that a sexist language that will affect the decisions of women judges is trying to evolve into a view that will affect the legal decisions of a campaign language that will obscure the traditional family perception on the basis of the Istanbul Convention and gender equality, and I perceive this as a threat to the establishment of justice. Because if justice gets hurt, everything gets hurt."
"REDUCES THE TRUST IN JUSTICE MECHANISM"
Attorney Yurdal Kılıçer said, "Turkish society, which has a historical tradition and an oral culture, tends to use social media as a technological reflection of the oral culture. If we put this fact aside, unfortunately, because of the doubts about the mechanism of justice olan that existed in the Turkish justice system every time and because of doubts about the mechanism of justice, people use social media intensely as a cushion of the sense of justice that they think they are wounded in good or bad intentions. Although in some cases it may seem that there is a belief that social media has an impact, it should be assessed in each case, taking into account the legal status of the case. General judgments on such an issue carry the risk of increasing the awareness of injured justice in the conscience of the society and further reducing the trust in the justice mechanism."
"LAW CANNOT BE PRODUCED IN SOCIAL MEDIA"
Lawyer Muharrem Balcı said, "Justice is an intellectual feeling given to people from creation. Nobody's been in justice. But secular ideologies tell our people that justice is relative, and people want justice only for themselves. The pursuit of justice in social media, whether it be for himself or for society, is extremely rare. The injustices are too extreme. The problems in the justice system stem from the fact that law is not extended to the masses. Law cannot be produced in social media, only complaints are produced. The efforts of a few well-intentioned jurists to promote the law lead to a healthy understanding of law, but these efforts are not sufficient. The work to be done is to lead the way in the distribution of justice along with the production of law on the grounds of organized struggle."