Who knew! Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to participate, January 20, 2011, at the general meeting of TÜSİAD (Türk Sanayicileri ve Işadamları Dernegi, the Association of Industrialists and businessmen from Turkey). This offshoot of the Westernized Turkish employers, which is currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of its foundation, and is one of the largest lobbies in support of Turkey's European bid, had the Prime Minister's guest of honor of his appointment annual event.
The arrival of the leader of the AKP was not yet acquired. Indeed, during the campaign preceding the referendum of 12 September, which helped to restructure the judicial hierarchy, a controversy erupted between government and TÜSİAD (see our issue of August 18, 2010). Recep Tayyip Erdogan had criticized the refusal of the employers' organization to give instructions to vote for the referendum. It was felt that this particular position was in fact a timid confession of hostility TÜSIAD Government Reform Project. In addition, the head of the Turkish government had denounced an attitude at odds with the positions expressed by rather favorable European Union in respect of the constitutional amendment proposed in the referendum. This skirmish with TÜSİAD was added to a previous clash, which occurred in July 2011, which saw it, bluntly criticizing the Kurdish Democratic initiative of the AKP (see our edition of July 20, 2010). The dispute began thus to be particularly heavy among the men now in power and an organization which, incidentally, had actively participated in toppling the Islamist Prime Minister Erbakan Necemettin in 1997 and worked to discourage Recep Tayyip Erdogan of being candidate in the presidential election in 2007 (see our edition of April 18, 2007).
It seems that the Prime Minister has agreed to spend sponge, for a time, so as not to deprive themselves of that forum is the meeting of Turkish and big business can send some strong messages about his political intentions for 2011. The first highlight of his speech development was focusing on tobacco and alcohol. The recent government directive restricting the sale of tobacco and alcohol (have a place-specific sales in stores, banning the sale of bottles of 20 cl, prohibition of alcohol during concerts ...) caused multiple political turmoil over the last ten days in Turkey. The chairman of the authority Turkish regulating the sale of tobacco and alcohol, Mehmet Küçük, denied any intention ideological sub-jascente the subject, and said that through new proposals for restrictions, the panel he chairs simply wanted to protect youth . But the secular establishment have seen in these measures, further evidence of the progress of an "oppressive mentality" which means the frame lifestyles.
front of Turkish businessmen also used for business meals washed down with their Western counterparts, there was a strong opportunity to explain that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not fail to grasp, saying: "I can have a hostile attitude to alcohol in my personal life and within my family. But if we are conservative, we are also Democrats, so we're careful not to impose our views on society. "Referring to recent provisions restricting the sale of alcohol in comparison to those adopted to the States U.S. or other Western countries, the Prime Minister then reminded that the Constitution obliged the public authority to protect youth from harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs, and felt that the government had done its work here.
Another highlight of the speech of the leader of the AKP has concerned the revival of the draft civil constitution. Initiated in the aftermath of the 2007 parliamentary elections, we know that this project has stalled, and has finally led to only a limited constitutional revision, which specifically made the subject of the referendum of 12 September 2010. Following the positive outcome of this election, Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the draft constitution would be civil completed, if the AKP government was renewed at the end the next elections in June 2011. For his part, since last September, the TÜSİAD has established a group of 25 experts, charged to consider a proposed new constitution. This group does not prepare a text itself, but should more accurately make proposals on 5 points: the mode of development of the next constitution, basic principles and institutions of the latter in the 21st century, questions of identity , freedom of religion and separation of powers. At the Annual General TÜSIAD Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has mostly repeated its commitment to reviving the draft Constitution calendar, ensuring that its development would not mobilize only experts but also the whole civil society.
The last important passage of the Prime Minister's speech concerned the judiciary and the reforms which he believes are still necessary, even after the revision of 12 September. Responding to the President of TÜSİAD, Mrs. Ümit Boyner, who regretted that the investigations into the assassinations of secular journalist, Uğur Mumcu in 1993 and the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, are still in impasse, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was not in power lorsqu'Uğur Mumcu was murdered, but that the killers of Hrant Dink had been arrested 36 hours after the crime. More generally, referring to the recent reform to limit pretrial detention and the overcrowding of dockets, which led to the release of prisoners deemed dangerous, he said that a comprehensive reform of the Turkish judiciary was necessary. Also in the judicial field, he did not fail at last to regret the recent decision of the Council of State, which quashed the decision of YOK, authorizing the wearing of headscarves by female students applying for postgraduate examinations. One way to remember that the wearing of headscarves in universities should once again be a big campaign issue of the AKP in the upcoming elections ...
JM
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