CHP EU REPRESENTATION - Brussels
KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU: AKP BLOCKING ELECTORAL REFORM, HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION March 2011
CHP leader Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu talked to journalists on his way to London: CHP has become the address for change, AKP the defender of the status quo. Once again, I’m urging AKP to re-write the constitution in cooperation with us to brighten the future of this country. Let’s draft a brand-new basic law, full with freedoms, democracy and the governance principles of the 21st Century. AKP backs off immediately, because it wishes to preserve the current state of affairs. In specific, we urged the party to amend Article 35 of the Armed Personel Act (which—according to some scholars—grants the armed forces the authority to intervene in the political system when unity and secularity is facing clear and present danger). We also urged AKP to launch a parliamentary inquiry into cold case murders (political motivated murders, where the unsub could not be identified), but it prefers to exploit the pain of the relatives. We want to abolish the 10% barrier for qualifying to the Grand Assembly, so that representatives from each segment of the society can come to the legislature, express their views freely. Instead AKP redoubles illegal wiretaps to commit the most heinous crime against privacy. AKP pretends to be for freedoms, but its acts belie the rhetoric. AKP building its own business community AKP has created its own businessmen, its own labour unions to polarize this country. It built its own media and is paying shrills parading as journalists. The pro-AKP media has only one purpose: to clog the press and airwaves to obfuscate the truth.
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