More than a hundred thousand people gathered in Taksim Square at the invitation of the CHP against both the 15 July coup attempt and the civilian coup attempts of the Presidential Palace and the AKP. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the CHP, read out 10 demands from the party “Today, we are here, we are […]
More than a hundred thousand people gathered in Taksim Square at the invitation of the CHP against both the 15 July coup attempt and the civilian coup attempts of the Presidential Palace and the AKP. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the CHP, read out 10 demands from the party
“Today, we are here, we are together. Today is the day for us to make history. Why are we in Taksim; what are we aiming for, what are we doing here? I prepared a manifesto to give the answer to all these questions. Now I will read it to you,” said Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu before reading out the Taksim Manifesto.
1- The coup attempt on 15 July was made against our parliamentary democracy. The Turkish Parliament was bombed, yet Parliament did its duty and repelled the coup attempt. We condemn those responsible for this coup attempt, as well as its internal and external supporters.
2- All political parties strictly opposed the coup attempt, displaying an undisputable notion of common sense about democracy in Turkey. This common sense has to facilitate a culture of reconciliation in politics.
3- Standing strictly against every kind of coup attempt and every kind of domination must be the debt of honor for all democrats and partisans of democracy in this country. We shall always keep saying “neither coup nor dictatorship, long live democracy” altogether.
4- “People using the right to resistance” against the coup attempt against our democratic parliamentary systet have created a new meaning and dimension for our understanding. “The right to resistance” came out as a lawful way of protecting democracy.
5- It has been repeatedly proven how much the principle of a “democratic, secular and social state of law” is vital for Turkey. The democratic, secular and social state of law shall be the key to bring us to modern civilization.
6- This coup attempt has proven the importance of the balance-supervision function of the “Separation of Powers” principle, that is,“executive, legislative and judicial powers.”
7- Giving back status and rights to those who were the victims of such lawsuits as “Balyoz,” “Ergenekon” and the military espionage case shall be on the agenda of all political parties.
8- This coup attempt has proven that governance must be based on qualification. Political partisanship, blood relations, communitarianism and sectarianism must never be taken as a basis in the functioning of the government. On the contrary, knowledge and experience shall be. In other words, the point of view of “taking over the state instead of governing it” must be consigned in history. In this context, the reconstruction of the state is a must.
9- The beautiful people of this beautiful country must freely walk around every street, every square, every park in this country. No one must forget – the coup attempt on 15 July is a result of third-class democracy. People in this country must be governed not with a third-class democracy but fully libertarian democracy. Turkey must be fully purified from the laws of coup.
10- The state cannot be governed with anger, hatred and prejudice. Those people who attempted the coup must be put on trial lawfully according to the principle of the rule of law. Torture, cruel treatment, pressure and threats lowers the state to the same level as the coup plotters. It must not be allowed.
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