Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor and CHP presidential candidate Ekrem Imamoğlu was detained 19 March 2025 and formally imprisoned 23 March 2025 on corruption and "terrorism" indictments, one day after Istanbul University annulled his undergraduate diploma (a constitutional prerequisite for presidential candidacy). Widely read as pre-emptive exclusion ahead of 2028. Triggered largest protests since Gezi; CHP primary proceeded with Imamoğlu as symbolic candidate. Event underscores the divergence between orthodox macro content and authoritarian institutional content of the third-term phase.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.