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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Published By: Atilla Yeşilada

GlobalSource Partners’ Turkey Country Analyst Atilla Yesilada is the country’s leading political analyst and commentator. He is known throughout the finance and political science world for his thorough and outspoken coverage of Turkey’s political and financial developments. In addition to his extensive writing schedule, he is often called upon to provide his political expertise on major radio and television channels. Based in Istanbul, Atilla is co-founder of the information platform Istanbul Analytics and is one of GlobalSource’s local partners in Turkey. In addition to his consulting work and speaking engagements throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East, he writes regular columns for Turkey’s leading financial websites VATAN and www.paraanaliz.com and has contributed to the financial daily Referans and the liberal daily Radikal.