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TURKEY: A Historic Manifesto from opposition for Democratization

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TURKEY:  A historic manifesto from opposition for democratization

 

  • 6 out of 7 major opposition parties came together to sign a manifesto for re-democratizing Turkey, if they were to come to power.

 

  • Prelude: How Turkey gained and lost her democratic mojo?

 

  • What does the manifesto entail?

 

  • Can it be achieved?

 

  • Does the opposition have any chance of beating President Erdogan and his AKP-MHP alliance.

 

  • Will the manifesto gain the opposition any votes?

 

Contents of the Manifesto

 

  • A long-dormant act to regulate political ethics will be revised and legislated.

 

  • The 10% national hurdle for a party to qualify for Grand Assembly will be reduced to 3%.

 

  • The byelaws of GA will be amended to grant the opposition more time in debates.

 

  • The authority to declare State of Emergency (SoE) will revert to the Cabinet and will require parliamentary approval.

 

  • Extraordinary decrees which violate regular judicial norms, a travesty of the SoE regime, will be declared null and void.

 

  • Turkey’s top judicial administrative body, the High Commission of Judges and Prosecutors will be divided into two chambers, for prosecutors and judges. Prosecutors will not be appointed judges.

 

  • The secondary education curricula will be enhanced with human rights and gender equality classes.

 

  • All exceptions, decrees and laws limiting the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression will be abolished.

 

  • The much-abused institution of an Interior Ministry appointed administrator to replace mayors for alleged crimes will be ended.

 

  • All relevant internationally acknowledged criteria for monitoring money laundering, corruption, nepotism and cronyism will be adopted in Turkey’s laws.

 

  • The Public Procurement Law will be revised to bring it up to par with EU norms.

 

  • Authority will be devolved from central government to municipalities, revenue sharing rules will be revised to dedicate more financial resources to the latter.

 

  • The High Education Board, which is the top coordination body of Turkish universities will be abolished. All colleges will elect their own administrators (deans, presidents, etc.).

 

  • Turkey’s independent regulatory agencies will be truly made so. (Currently, major regulatory agencies like BRSA, for instance, report to a minister).

 

 

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