Friday, 9 October 2009
The Turkish premier said on Friday that he wanted to set a date for debating the government's "democratic move" after he got a response to his letter to the opposition party leader.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wrote a letter to the chairman of the main opposition party on Thursday regarding the government's "democratic move."
"I do not know what kind of a response will come, but we want to set a date to debate the democratic move at the parliament after a response comes to this letter," Erdogan told reporters.
Erdogan said his government wanted to debate this project with all lawmakers and pass it from the parliament with a maximum compromise.
"We also want to explain it in detail to our nation," he said.
Erdogan said the most important issue in the democratic move process was to solve the terror problem, and expressed determination to continue the fight against terrorism.
The prime minister said Turkey had many problems, and his government was trying to minimize the problems. "As how citizens of Kurdish origin have problems, minorities and sects living in Turkey have their own problems," he said.
Erdogan said there were also some economic problems, and his government would be in an effort to handle them as a whole and minimize the problems with a maximum social compromise.
The prime minister said every one had to get involved in the process.
On July 22, Erdogan announced his government initiated a move to deal with Kurdish issue and Ministry of Interior was assigned with coordination of this task.
A week later, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said their government believed the so-called "Kurdish issue" would be solved with an egalitarian approach through democratization.
