Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak has met with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Paris and is set to have talks with Germany’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Sept. 21.
The legal year has begun. Therefore, I would like to mention a very valuable book on law.
While Ankara is having problems with U.S. President Donald Trump, European leaders are making statements of support for Turkey both in economic and political terms.
The state of emergency was finally lifted. Of course this is a pleasing move, however, some of the practices under the state of emergency that caused widespread unfair treatments are now set to continue under regular laws.
First and foremost, let me make this clear, the new Education Minister Prof. Dr. Ziya Selçuk is my hope and happiness in regards to the new administrative system. I will elaborate on that shortly.
The Turkish society has not yet reached a consensus on the very fundamental values, and this is Turkey’s main problem.
Turkey just had an exciting round of elections. Now the state is adopting itself to a new governance system. This adoption process is very important but we should never forget law and justice. It is even more important now to be more careful about justice and to end unlawful arrests. In fact, the precedents by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Constitutional Court have already established that a number of the arrests violate rights, meaning that those arrested must be released. The economy is also facing serious challenges, which means that trust in justice must be restored. Implementing the rulings of the ECHR and Constitutional Court will likely help the economy too.
One important aspect of the 2018 polls was the alliances formed by political parties. The 10 percent electoral threshold was effectively removed from the path of political parties that seek representation in parliament, except for the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
One distinctive feature of the 2018 election is that the old ideological rigidities have been widely overcome. All parties are embracing economic populism, but thank God, they are not picking a fight over the headscarf or concepts such as Islamic reactionism (irtica) and secularism.
