Turkish President To Address Deputies in Opening Speech
The Turkish Parliament is set to return from summer recess and resume working on the yearly agenda. President Abdullah Gül is expected to address the deputies of both the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and the Republican Party (CHP), urging the leaders to work together on implementing the National Program and passing European-Union inspired reforms.
The leaders of both the Nationalist and Republican parties did not approve of the appointment of Ali Babacan to the position of Foreign Minister for consultations over the National Program. The National Program is a document that spells out the country’s reform program and a timetable to complete all the chapters, in order to be completely aligned with the EU Acquis. The adoption of the document could be an excellent opportunity for the Turkish to display to the European bloc signs of progress before the annual report of the European Commission in November. This would be especially advantageous to the Turkish, as so far, negotiations to pass most of the chapter reforms of the document have been frozen due to the contentious issue of Cyprus.
The President has previously emphasized the importance of Turkey showing the will to proactively open and close these document chapters and the necessity of consensus between the deputies, as 2 or 3 refusals from deputies is enough to reject legislation in the Parliament.
On a different note, the Turkish Parliament will also vote on extending authorization for another year to the military to conduct cross-border operations in Northern Iraq, to quell terrorist activity of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The current authorization is set to expire on October 17th.
Adam Hazzout
December 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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