The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP), while placing a fair, peaceful resolution to the Kurdish issue compliant with international treaties and United Nations documents at the core of its program, it adopts as a concern all the problems of the country, and aims to realize its change, transformation and restructuring and to render democracy operational in the country together with all its institutions and principles.

    The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) supports Turkey’s accession to the European Union and aims to speed up the accession process through drawing together all the required harmonization documents as early as possible.           The party will bring to life all the changes and transformations necessary in order to convert our legacies such as language, history, culture, customs, treaties and traditions into universal values, as well as to combine them together with other similar values and to enrich them, and to share economic, technological, scientific values with the entire humanity.

    The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) adopts as its mission to formulate the privacy of individuals, free individuals, the civil society, democratic government, a decentralized governance system for the sake of the happiness of the population and the welfare of the country, and considers this its primary task.

    Therefore, the Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) evaluates the current state of affairs in Turkey and the world, and asks for the support of our society via its modern program. 

 

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) espouses a democratic legal system that is, independent, impartial, compliant with the basic principles of law and one that rescues the society from the “grand surveillance project.” The existing Constitution contradicts the current realities of the society. It will not be adequate to rehabilitate the Constitution. Therefore, a new and civilian Constitution will be drafted.

   The new Constitution will be a democratic civil society Constitution that places the individual at its center, rests on human rights and freedoms as well as the principles of a pluralist, participatory, secular, social law government and one that considers the government to be in the service of the people.

   The right to live is sacred. Human dignity must be respected and protected. Torture as well as inhuman and humiliating treatment of persons is forbidden. Responsible parties will be sanctioned.

    Democracy is a normative way of life that derives its power from law. Contrary to what has come to be argued, the republic is not equal to democracy. It is just a governance method. Today in the world, many European countries that are indicated to be the landmarks of democracy are governed by monarchies. On the other hand, many governments are republics in name but are governed by dictatorships.

    The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) sees the rights of the individual as a priority and considers the government to be a joint institution in the service of individuals. In order to build a democratic and civilian society, all the legal barriers erected in the name of the “sacred state” will be removed. Laws will be harmonized with the EU standards as a priority. This will be given special care in practice.

   International treaties ratified by the Parliament have, as stated in Article 90 of the Constitution, statutory effect and are included in the domestic regulations. These treaties will be observed strictly and the domestic legislation with be harmonized with these treaties. “The Law on the Adjudication of Civil Servants” will be abolished and government officials that commit offenses through the usage of governmental authorities will be prosecuted.

 Persons involved in offenses that disrupt the societal peace, such as narcotics, organized crime, and snatch and run, will be penalized heavily and those that are in their juvenile age will be rehabilitated and treated at locations to be determined.

   Civil servants that neglect their duties and menace citizens will be dismissed of their posts.

   The penalties provided for persons producing and selling foodstuffs that threaten the social health will be doubled, and they will be banned from the production and the commerce of foodstuff for life.

   Our party unconditionally defends freedom of thought, freedom of religion and conscience, freedom of enterprise and other human rights and freedoms in order to make the country a country of citizens.

   The sovereignty of citizens is the basis of a democratic order. The most significant pillar of that is the right to accurate information. All kinds of censorship on the media will be removed. Every measure will be taken for the spread and development of mass communication devices like the radio, television, internet, newspapers, journals and books, correspondence devices, as well as of information, culture and art.

   The right of citizens to acquire information on all issues apart from official secrets, which will be redefined and narrowed down in scope, will be ensured fully and misinformation will be considered an offense.

   The former names of locales and regions will be restored if they were changed in the Republican period.

   In order to create social peace, a general amnesty will be issued. Village guards will be retired and disarmed.

   Villages that were burned down in the past few decades in the name of security will be rebuilt and villagers will be allowed to return to their previous land.

   For the sake of creating free individuals and liberating the society, barriers before the organization of the civil society will be removed, while they are offered all sorts of means to operate freely and provided with financial contribution.

   The accused have the right to be adjudicated under an independent and impartial court. The period of detention will be kept to a minimum, and detainees will be kept at a detention center for this period. Only those whose sentences are finalized will be sent to prison and they will be granted their rights stemming from international conventions fully throughout their sentence.

   The resolution of the Kurdish issue is a priority and fundamental issue for Turkey and the raison d’être of our party. We are a party that places the resolution of the Kurdish issue at the core of our program. Therefore, we feel the need to put across our approach to this problem under a separate heading.

   In order to comprehend the issue, we need to know who the Kurds are, what their status is, and what the rights they are entitled to within the scope of international legitimacy include.

   The Kurds are a people whose history dates back to ancient times. They have been living in the Upper Mesopotamian region in lands that belong to themselves for millennia even before Turks came to the Middle East. They are the aboriginals of their own lands, i.e. the first resident people. They have a unique language and culture. They hold the quantitative majority in their region. There is a national identity –Kurdish identity- that they adopt and uphold. They have never seen themselves as a subunit of any nation in any period in history, and they do not see themselves so today either.

   The Kurds are a people, due to their history, geography, language and culture, their majority status in their region and their will to preserve their national identity. The political status of the Kurds is a status of the people. It is a fallacy to view the Kurds as an ordinary ethnic group.        According to the United Nations Charter, peoples are equal and hold the right to self-determination. The Kurdish people also hold the right to determine its own destiny. The rights of Kurds must be evaluated within this framework.

   The right to self-determination can be utilized without changes to the current political borders. Kurds must use their right to determination in Turkey within the current state. They must have the right to govern themselves in their own region within Turkey’s existing political boundaries. This is one of the primary principles that our party espouses. Therefore, radical changes must be made to the state structure of Turkey.

   While the Turkish state has been founded in a very favorable geography, it failed to establish a true democracy, attain economic development and welfare, ensure social peace and prosperity, and to find a prestigious spot in the world. The reasons for this need to be sought in the state structure and the established order. For the established order of the state is incongruent with the social structure.

   The Turkish state was founded upon the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious pluralist social structure of the Ottomans. While the state should have been structured with a pluralist understanding that sees to the rights of all citizens in line with this social structure, to the contrary, it was structured under a singular and top-down rationale that is based on the interests and the sovereignty of a single group –Turks. The goal of the state has been to melt all other different groups in the Turkish pot, to Turkify them and to create a single Turkish nation. This implied the destruction of other groups. This rationale has not caused a major issue for other groups other than the Kurds.

   However, things were different for the Kurds. Kurds, whose roots are buried deep in history and who maintain their presence as a separate nation in their own land with their own culture and traditions, have refuse to acquiesce or to bow to the state policy to destroy and delete them from history. They have struggled to preserve their national existence and attain the rights that they are entitled to. The officials of the state refer to 29 Kurdish revolts. Even today, a low intensity conflict that occupies the agenda in Turkey and increasingly in the world prevails.

   The state struggles to melt the Kurds in the Turkish pot and the Kurds struggle to maintain their national existence. This is the Kurdish issue in brief.

   Security has taken the upper hand due to the Kurdish issue, and rights and freedoms were shoved to the background, thwarting democratic progress. As the economic means of the country are allocated to a major extent to ensuring order, adequate economic development and welfare failed to be created. Organized criminal groups bred within the state under the pretext to ensure order and the structure of the state has been soiled. Social rest, trust and peace failed to be created. Due to the foreign policy pursued with nationalist reflexes, Turkey could not secure a prestigious location in the world. The failure to resolve the Kurdish issue rests at the basis of all these adversities. Hence, we say that the Kurdish issue needs to find a fair and reasonable solution that satisfies and pleases the Kurds.

 

   We can list the basic principles we espouse for the resolution of the issue as follows:

1- The Kurdish issue must be resolved within the state integrity by preserving Turkey’s existing boundaries.

2- Armed struggle cannot be a solution method in the solution of the Kurdish issue. The Kurdish armed movement cannot defeat the Turkish army, and the Turkish security forces can annihilate Kurds. The issue is a political issue. It needs to be resolved through a peaceful, democratic political struggle. Therefore, we denounce all kinds of violence in the resolution of the issue.

3- The resolution of the issue needs to be handled within the framework of international legitimacy, and fairness, justice and equality should be the guiding principles.

4- Different formulas can be debated for the resolution of the issue. The solution formula of our party is: a liberal, pluralist, participatory, secular, democratic federal system.

In fact, the issue is an easily comprehensible and resolvable issue.

Only if,

1- The chauvinist understanding of Turkish nationalism that reserves itself the right to usurp others’ rights and to subordinate others is abandoned and replaced by an understanding of empathy instead.

2- Objectivity and equality, the requisites of justice, are adopted as the basics. “What is a right for me is a right for others” becomes the motto.

3- A milieu of full liberty is created so that the issue can be appreciated entirely and solution formulas can be discussed.

Let’s open a parenthesis here to facilitate our endeavor:

Turkey suggests a “two-region, two-society solution that provides for equality between the two peoples” for the Cypriot Turks, who have less political advantage than the Kurds in Turkey.

Why not put into practice the Cypriot formula of Turkey for the Kurds in Turkey, who have much more justifiable advantages than the Turkish Cypriots?

The “federative system”, our solution formula, gains justifiability. Due to its significance concerning the solution, we should briefly explicate the “federative system.”

 

   A federal system is the best governance model for states with a social plurality. The federal system is more democratic and liberal governance method than the unitary system and befits the pluralist structures of societies better.

   The federal system enables the preservation and the development of linguistic, religious, ethnic, cultural, historical or economic differences of each federate unit.

   The federative system is not the division of the system but one that concerns the domestic governance. A federal state is a single state in terms of the constitution law and the international law. The source of its authority is singular and that is the free will of its people. It is only differentiated from the unitary system in the way it utilizes its authority. The utilization of authority is not concentrated in a single center but is rather diffused across multiple centers.

   The paramount advantage of the federal system is its obligation to be democratic. Federalism cannot survive in an undemocratic regime, whereas the unitary government does not have to be democratic.

   The biggest obstacle before the implementation of federalism in Turkey is the lack of a truly democratic milieu. There are three significant impediments here:

   1- THE LACK OF A DEMOCRACY CULTURE: The lack of the required tolerance, respect for difference and the latitude for democracy in the overall majority of the Turkish society. The state is sacred. As a corollary, it needs to be centralized and authoritarian. Ideas contradicting the understanding of the sacred state are considered to be divisive and secessionist. This is an understanding that counters the federal system. This mentality is not only observed among ordinary citizens, but also dominates the elite political strata and the academic circles.

   2- MILITARY- CIVILIAN RELATIONS: In democratic countries, it is impossible for the military to dominate the state rule, as the military is by nature uniform, has been trained in a unitary-monopolist understanding and has adopted that as a way of life. This is necessary for the military establishment. But this militarist understanding, which is a dominating institution, when imposed on the state and the society, thwarts democratic progress.

   3- JUDICIAL ATTITUDE: Unfortunately, many judges and prosecutors, who should be serving justice and protecting the basic rights of the individual, act under the instinct to preserve the state. They interpret and implement legal norms with an illiberal frame of mind. This blocks the democratic political and social development.

   With this opportunity, we should address the judiciary’s approach to the norm of “the indivisibility of the state in its territory and nation” and therefore to the federative system.

   Among the reasons cited in Article 68/4 of the Constitution for party closures, contradicting the indivisibility norm is also listed. What is taken under protection with this norm is the integrity of the state. The issue protected by the indivisibility norm is the physical integrity of the country. This integrity is guaranteed by the political boundaries of the country. The federal system does not seek to change the boundaries of the country. It is a method that only concerns the domestic governance. Therefore the federal system does not contradict “the indivisibility of the state in its territory and nation.”

   Nevertheless, in practice, the indivisibility norm has been equated with the unitary system. This is a flawed interpretation.

   This interpretation is against the spirit of the law and the modern democratic notion. It creates a major impediment for parties defending the federal system.

   We are hoping that the Constitutional Court, taking into consideration the amended Article 90 of the Constitution, resorts to a new, modern and healthy interpretation under a liberal mind frame and therefore pave the way for democratic progress and offering the opportunity for the resolution of the Kurdish issue, which has close ties with democracy.

   Political parties are the indispensable and most significant element of democracy. Rather than a singular-type politics and a singular-type party, everyone who has the right to vote should have the right to found a party. The fundamental character of democracy is pluralism and this is why political parties exist. Political parties cannot be closed down under laws that have no tolerance to pluralism and their founders cannot be banned from politics. This kind of mass-scale penalties and prohibitions through unlawful practices in the name of law is unacceptable.

   The Elections Law is as significant as the constitution. The access of the society to governance and their rights to have a say and to make decisions are only viable through a democratic elections law. Therefore, a new and participatory elections law will be prepared with the collaboration of representatives from democratic mass organizations and from political parties with the parliament.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) provides for a mandatory pre-election process in all parties for parliamentary elections. Party members elect prospective candidates of twice the number of deputies for a particular electoral district. In the political parties that join elections with these lists, the deputy ranking should be determined by preferential elections and there should be a list of reserve deputies.

   Independent candidates should join elections together with the reserve candidate. In order to ensure fairness in representation, each political party will be represented in the parliament in proportion to the rate of votes it receives on a countrywide basis.

   Deputies will have lifetime immunity for the political declarations they make during their terms in office.

   Public duties and authorities apart from the defense of the country, the representation of the government abroad and mega projects that exceed regional facilities and boundaries will be left to local governance bodies.

   Political parties are obliged to hold pre-elections with all the members of the party for local elections. These will determine the mayor candidate and draw the list of municipal assembly members.

   In the case of district congresses, all members registered at the district will vote. District chair, district administrative board principal members, party member mayors and county branch heads are delegates to the province. Province and district chairs, party member mayors and party member deputies are delegates to the overall party congress.

   Once a decentralized governance model is achieved, the Presidency system will be introduced.

   Every political party that submits a foundation petition to the Interior Ministry has the right to attend elections if it should wish to do so. The Higher Board of Elections and the impediments imposed by the legislation will be abolished.

   The Provincial General Assembly will be granted more powers and converted into local parliaments. Governor, District Governor, Province and District Police Chiefs will be elected by the regional residents.

   Candidates at the local and national elections have the right to prepare posters and propagate in any language best understood by the electorate.

The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) espouses an education system that is open to the entire world, research-based, creative, pluralist, competitive, free from violence and one that has shed its status of "center for instruction and discipline" and is able to create the information society.

   Today's education system is the most complicated and inefficient of all EU member countries, for it prevents the liberalization, self-fulfillment and research faculties of the individual. Education is perceived to be composed exclusively of instruction and discipline.

   The opportunities will be created for children at the basic education level to attend school without being broken off their family households. If necessary, families will be offered education contribution.

   All sorts of activities to distribute food and clothing that may hurt the children's dignity are prohibited. All facilities are ensured for children by the government.

   Vocational schools will have duration of three years. Theoretical education will be supplemented heavily by practical training. For that, the boarding school system and dormitories will be abolished and students will be provided with rent support schemes if necessary. Vocational school graduates will be able to go into vocational tertiary education.

   Education at the high school level will go up to four years. The dormitory system will be abandoned. Students in need will be offered scholarships and rent grants.

   All kinds of public boarding school systems at the primary and secondary school levels will be abandoned.

   Mandatory religious education and the military education courses will be dropped off the curriculum in primary education, high schools and the vocational schools and replaced by foreign language and computer knowledge courses.

   YÖK system will be abandoned. Universities will be rendered administratively and financially autonomous and converted into economic and scientific institutions that operate on a revolving capital and govern themselves.

   Students of less well-off backgrounds will be provided with non-repayable scholarships and if the need arises, credits.

   All institutions offering scholarships will be combined under a single umbrella. Private institutions and persons willing to offer scholarships will be able to do so through the intermediation of this institution.

   A higher body will be built that checks the compliancy of the curricula of all military and civilian education bodies with human rights and democracy.

  Barbarian and primitive mentalities that justify aggression, expansionism, usurpation of rights, pillage, and the subordination of others and characterizes this as heroism will be kept away from education.

   The graduates of Police Academies, War Academies and Petty Officer Schools cannot form commercial unions among themselves as long as they are appointed to a mission, and cannot engage in trade.

   A special importance will be placed in student exchanges with foreign universities, particularly in undergraduate and postgraduate education. To this end, students will be supported by special scholarships. 

   Special measures will be taken for students without families or disabled children to benefit from all kinds of education.

   All interdictions and censorships in the fields of science, art and culture will be abolished. Education in these fields will be given special importance and international relations and student exchange will be ensured.

   Non-school education and culture will be endorsed to sustain ongoing national education.

   Freedom of religion and conscience will be guaranteed under a new understanding of secularism.

   Turkey, while a majority of its population is Muslim, has been experiencing a religious based tension in an acute way.

   This is due to the fact that the idea of secularism that emerged as an ideological way of struggle against the sultanate, the caliphate and the old order in the first years of the Republic, has lost its true content and meaning due to its employment as an ideological weapon in both ideological and political understandings and its imposition like a state religion.

   Therefore, the impartiality of the state in the face of freedom of religion and conscience was removed and the state was rendered a stakeholder and situated at the core of debates on faith. In reality, the duty of the state is to protect individuals against groups. The state pressure and imposition on people loyal to their spiritual values will be removed.

In a secular country, religion cannot be under the command of the state.

   Therefore, secularism was made the state ideology like a religion, and the Directorate of Religious Affairs was converted into an institution disseminating the official ideology of the state.

   People loyal to their religious beliefs would not like anyone to intervene between the subject and God. People who are believers and non-believers in different ways resent these notions imposed on them by the state.

   This attitude of the state is an intervention in the freedom of religion and conscience, which disrupts the peace between faith and the official way of life.

   It is not possible to acquiesce to the secularism notion of the state as a true notion of secularism in its current form.

   To this end, an aspect of the freedom, equality, peace, democracy and change program of our party is constituted by a new understanding of secularism.

   For this reason, the Directorate of Religious Affairs will be resolved and the clergy will no longer be public officials.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) espouses a notion of secularism whereby all faiths can freely express themselves. Just as every person freely chooses his faith, he or she has the right to choose the way of life that befits that faith.

   Religious affairs and education will not by any means be under the control of the state, these tasks will be assigned to the society and to communities, and religious education will no longer be compulsory.

   The maintenance of worship places, the education, appointment, subsistence of the clergy and similar regulations will be left to religious communities.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) will establish a new understanding in this sense through paying attention to values about faith and developing projects to be borne to embrace the future as required by our social and individual consciousness and our citizenship will.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) views the women outside their traditional role as a most significant element of our project of change and transformation.

   It aims to cooperate with the relevant institutions for the education of women and their assuming the place they deserve in the social and political sphere.

   Children have the right to receive the protection and the care they need for their welfare. Children should be able to express their views freely. These views will be taken into consideration in line with their ages and maturity in issues that concern them.

   As a requisite of the Social Government principle, the basic education of children will be complsory, the state will take all measures to make this a reality, and all expenses will be met by the government.

   The working conditions of children will be brought in line with international norms.

   All precautions will be taken to prevent children’s abuse and begging.

   Disabled children as well as children without families or protection will be under the protection of the state. All expenses will be met by the government until they complete their education and find a job that suits their skills.

   Attention will be paid to ensure that the youth can fulfill their potential in social life and develop their personality as tolerant persons.

   To this end, Youth Centers will be opened to meet the needs of the youth. At these centers, effort will be spent to get the youth learn about peaceful co-existence, develop tolerance and to stay away from dangerous habits. All kinds of means will be offered for them to pursue their sports and culture endeavors.

   Projects will be developed to help the youth get a profession and to work in their own profession and precautions will be taken against all developments that may hurt their security against economic exploitation, their physical and mental health, and their moral and social development, as well as those that can hinder their education.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) will introduce all measures to create a youth that is virtuous in private and social life, honest, productive, knowledgeable, adept, skilful, and tolerant.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) espouses a fair distribution of income and an economic system where regional disparities, tax inequities, rent creation by the state and unaccountable tax expenditures are non-existent, where free market competition conditions are created and one befits the notion of liberal and social government.

   The role of the government is to create the infrastructure of the production and consumption network, and to protect the producer and the consumer. The government will withdraw from the economic sphere and fulfill the responsibility of being a social government.

   In a global world, capital circulates through three ways:

   Firstly, by getting a particular country borrow. This is the most profitable and risk-free way for capital, but the most risky way for the country.

   Secondly, by buying securities in the country. This is a way with little risk and high profitability for capital. But it may lead to economic crises for that country in entries and exits. Therefore, it disrupts economic balances.

   The third way is to invest and produce in that country. This is the most risky way for capital but the most profitable for the country because it creates production and employment.

 All precautions will be taken to prevent the possible hazards referred to in the first and second paragraphs.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) supports the investment of productive capital in the country. It helps the investor through the provision of land plots, cheap raw materials and investment subsidies and offers tax benefits. But it will not by any means disrupt the free competition environment or resort to protectionism through special taxes and measures. International environmental standards will be keenly observed in the case of all kinds of investment.

   Regional development levels will be taken into consideration for investments and investors will be supported accordingly.

   The party will, in line with free market conditions, ensure equality of opportunity in production and social justice in distribution.

   The economy will be harmonized with the rules and the operation of the European Union.

   For consumers, a protective system where European Union rules also apply will be created.

   Privatizations will be accelerated and non-economic enterprises will be shut down immediately.

   Public banks will be privatized; the government control over the economy will be dissolved. The banking system will be harmonized with the European Union banking scheme and there will not be any guarantees on deposits by any means.

   To ensure the peace between the employee ad the employer, an employment and labor scheme will be pursued where parties can negotiate through their own professional organizations on an equal basis.

   Public lodgings will be built when deemed necessary; all lodgings will be turned over to the local municipality and will be leased out to public officials at the current rate of rent.

   The public currently has more vehicles than necessary. These will be sold immediately and unnecessary purchases will be prevented.

   The protracted GAP Project will be completed as soon as possible. The irrigation system will be completed first and offered to the service of agriculture.

   Technical and organic agriculture will be prioritized. Measures will be taken to meet the rapidly growing demand for organic agricultural products in the internal market of the EU. This is very significant for small agricultural holdings and landholders that still have organic soil like those in Turkey.  

   State Economic Enterprises in agriculture will be dissolved and subsidies that support direct production will be offered.

   Measures will be taken to improve the production level and the quality in a unit area.

   Livestock production, which has been undertaken with archaic methods, will be abandoned for the sake of modern breeding methods that boost productivity to be supported.

   The biggest supporter of agriculture and livestock production is agriculture-based industry.

   For this reason, industrial investments based on agriculture and livestock will be supported through special subsidies.

   Production-consumption equilibrium will be created in line with free market conditions.

   All measures will be taken for the production of cultivated fishery products and production will be encouraged. All precautions will be taken for fishing, the protection of fishing zones and their sustainability.

   The insurance sector, which is the guarantee of life and property security, will be brought to European Union standards.

   Because we are on a first-degree earthquake zone, a comprehensive system of earthquake insurance will be formulated.

   An insurance scheme that covers agriculture and livestock against natural disasters will be created.

   Taxation must be fair, low in number, simple, comprehensible and payable.

   To this end, a comprehensive taxation law will be passed and penalties for tax evasion will be made heavier. Tax evasion will not be pardoned by any means.

   Taxes will be paid every month and will be balanced by the end of the year balance sheets.

   Tax expenditures will be transparent and can be controlled by taxpayers at any point in time.

   A candidate country for EU membership cannot afford to have such a high rate of military expenditure. The number and standards of the military personnel will be brought to the EU level and military expenditures will be brought down meanwhile. The sources spared here will be transferred to health and education. Compulsory military service will be abolished and replaced by professional military service.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) believes that everyone should be able to benefit from social rights without discrimination for gender, religion, language, political view and social origin among citizens.

   Necessary regulations will be made for every citizen to freely get a safe and healthy job, for the creation of fair working conditions, and for workers to receive a fair wage to ensure sustenance for themselves and their families.

   Organization at the levels of national and international institutions will be ensured for the protection of the economic and social interests of employees and employers.

   The collective bargaining right of employers and employees will be granted legal guarantees.

   Every person without the adequate means will be able to benefit from education, social and health services.

   All measures will be taken for the social and economic protection of mothers, children, the disabled and the elderly irrespective of their marital status and family relations.

   Everyone will be able to benefit from social security and unemployment benefit opportunities as long as they do not work.

   Every citizen will have health insurance and the government will pay the premiums of individuals who are not actively working. Family practice will be brought to EU standards and hospitals will be converted into autonomous institutions that operate on revolving funds.

   The Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) defends disarmament, peace and democratic practices in the world.

   The infringement of democratic rights cannot be a domestic issue of any country. In these respects, it will resort to cooperation with international institutions.

   It will spend effort for the limitation of military expenditure on a world scale, the termination of chemical weapons and landmines as soon as possible and the eradication of existing ones.

   Effort will be spent for the strict supervision of arms production and the liability of arms producers for circulating weapons.

   All actions that will disrupt the ecological balance in the world will be prevented and in order to stop the destruction of rainforests, a struggle will be pursued against the richer countries that import timber rather than the poorer ones that export wood. Timber imports will be prohibited.

   In order to combat the drought and hunger in the world, a fund will be crated under the United Nations and effort will be spent for the transfer of 3 percent of all the military expenditure in the world to this fund.

    The efforts to make military service non-compulsory will be supported. Local wars will be intervened immediately in order to eradicate their causes.

   Apart from general disarmament and peace endeavors, international cooperation and effective institutions will be formulated against fascism, racism and totalitarian practices.

   Values like religion, language, music, and historical artifacts held by people across the globe will be protected. Cooperation with the relevant institutions will be upheld for people protecting and developing their own values and their employment for the joint usage of humanity.

    A foreign policy that is consistent with the European Union security and defense policy, defends the country’s interests, respects the right to self-determination, opposes to all imperial pressures and places human at the core of its politics will be pursued.