>like Putin is planning to do

My understanding is the Russian courts have for a LONG time been weak and simply deferred to Putin and Co. The Russian courts don't even come up as a question when most Russian news is discussed.

Russian courts are simply rubberstamping whatever they are told to do indeed. They are just an empty facade. In this since Turkey is in a better situation, so far.

But Erdogan is gradually trying to take all that way. He already changed the system from parliamentary to a presidential one. Why would you expect him to stop there? He'll try to get to the courts too.