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    PACE CALLS ON TURKEY'S INSTITUTIONS "TO RESPECT EACH OTHER'S COMPETENCES"

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    27.06.2008 14:07 GMT+04:00

    Underlying the importance of "effective separation of powers", the
    Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) called on Turkey's
    institutions "to respect each other's competences" and join efforts
    to pursue political reforms that will turn the country into a modern
    democracy.

    Following the proposals by the rapporteur, Luc Van den Brande (Belgium,
    EPP/CD), the parliamentarians said that, regardless of its outcome, the
    lawsuit against the ruling party, as well as the Prime Minister and the
    President of the Republic, "is seriously affecting political stability
    in the country" and the functioning of democratic institutions. The
    dissolution of political parties, they said, "should be regarded as
    an exceptional measure to be applied only in cases where the party
    concerned uses violence or threatens civil peace and the democratic
    constitutional order."

    According to the Assembly, "a comprehensive review of the law on
    political parties is required in order to bring this text fully
    into line with European standards", and the need for a new, civilian
    constitution altogether "has now become more evident than ever". In
    this regard, the government's initiative to draft a new constitution
    opens "a window of opportunity for a broad national debate involving
    all actors of society".

    The Assembly asked its Monitoring Committee to intensify its
    post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, closely follow the development
    of the democratic functioning of its state institutions and, in
    particular, the constitutional drafting process, and if need be
    "seriously consider the possibility of re-opening the monitoring
    procedure," PACE Communication Unit reports
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