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Turkey: KADEP becomes country's newest
party
21.12.2006 |
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Ankara, December
20, -- The country's 53rd political party was
founded yesterday with the Participatory Democracy
Party (KADEP) presenting its foundation application
to the Interior Ministry.
In a speech after presenting the petition, party
leader Serafettin Elci said that KADEP is a
participatory, libertarian, pluralist, secular and a
democratic political party, loyal to people's rights
and freedoms and rule of law.
"The state order against a contemporary democratic
approach and social structure should be changed,"
said Elci. "The most acceptable and equitable state
model is a federal system.
Only a federal system can find a reasonable and
permanent solution to Turkey's fundamental problem
with priority -- the Kurdish problem."
Elci stated that KADEP aims to solve the Kurdish
problem through a federal system that would also
respect Turkey's present borders. "KADEP rejects
every kind of violence and adopts a democratic,
pacifist and political struggle," said Elci. |
Serafettin Elci |
Elected as Mardin deputy from the Justice Party (AP)
in the 1977 general elections, Elci participated in
the 1978 government under the leadership of Bulent
Ecevit as housing minister. Spending 30 months in
prison after the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup, Elci
founded the Democratic Mass Party in 1997, which was
closed in 1999 due to ideas in the party's program.
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