DICTATOR Erdoğan Dismisses 10 Percent Threshold Pleas - [so that his dictatorship can continue ..] Recep said July 26 during a brief press interview that he had no intention of tackling the 10 percent election issue despite opposition pressure. “My thoughts on the threshold are clear. We don’t have that on our agenda. This wasn’t something that was done in our time. We don’t want to put our country through any suffering. We want to continue with a process that has been tried out before,” the prime minister said. The opposition had repeated the call for the reducing of the ten percent threshold a day earlier when Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy head Sezgin Tanrıkulu said no package of reforms would be a “democratization package” without the reduction. “A package that does not include reducing the election threshold, that does not bring new proposals on [the problem of long] imprisonment, that does not broaden the scope of freedom of speech, and that does not renew laws on freedom of assembly, cannot be considered a democratization package,” Tanrıkulu told reporters at a press conference on July 25. 26 July 2013 turkishweekly.net/news/153539/turkish-pm-erdogan-dismisses-10-percent-threshold-pleas.html
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:00:18 +0000
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