Over the past decade, the judiciary in Turkey has ceased to function as an independent body that safeguards the rule of law and has instead become an instrument used by the political authorities to eliminate their opponents. Those in power have mobilized all state resources to label individuals—most of whom are innocent—as “members of a terrorist organization” whenever they perceive them as politically or personally inconvenient. Through state institutions, seized media outlets, and intensive perception operations, members of the Hizmet Movement have been particularly targeted; society has been systematically manipulated, othered, and immersed in a climate of hatred.In this process,…