President Tayyip Erdogan's government is seeking ways to curb the influence of Turkey's Constitutional Court, prompted by its rulings to free a jailed opposition parliamentarian, according to a senior official and two legislators in the governing alliance. Turkey's highest court ruled in October that Can Atalay's ongoing imprisonment violated his right to hold office after he was elected to parliament from his jail cell in May's general election. Atalay was sentenced in 2022 to 18-years in prison for trying to overthrow Erdogan's government by organising national protests in 2013.
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