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Turk here. There will be 13 high level judiciary members, 4 of whom will be appointed by president (Erdogan) and rest by majority of assembly (Erdogan's Party). So forget about independency. They are not even independent at the moment anyways.

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I had a second look at the proposed changes, there are 2 important ones regarding judicial matters, the change for constitutional court is mainly removing 2 members selected from military judges. The change regarding high judicial court is more complex but i don't see an alarming difference between the new and existing, could you point to me?

http://anayasadegisikligi.barobirlik.org.tr/Anayasa_Degisikl...

If you read a bit, Ataturk also managed things single handedly so should not be an alien concept for Turks

Is there some structural factor that prevents the assembly from being taken by Erdogan's opposition?

In theory they can. In practice, impossible. Its the culture. We do not vote for representative, we vote for a party and its leader.

A split opposition and a 10% voting threshold. The opposition would essentially have to lay aside their differences and form an anti-Erdogan party. That's unlikely, because the Kemalists and the Kurds hate each other.

Who told you that Kemalists and the Kurds hate each other ? Can you give me any source for that ?

The Kemalists want one indivisible Turkey with only Turks. The Kurds not only persist in calling themselves Kurds instead of Turks, but they also want to secede. These two points of view don't play nice with each other.

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