The three "bills", which provide for amendments to the "criminal code", privacy and protection of privacy and defamatory publications, provoked a heated debate between opposition leader Toufan Erhiurman and the "government", while tension also prevailed during the vote of the present "MPs" on whether or not to refer them to an urgent debate.
The "bills" were tabled in plenary today in the form of an urgent debate.
"I do not believe that you have read these (the "bills"), understood them, nor do I want to believe it", said PKK President Toufan Erhiurman, addressing mainly the "MPs" of the "coalition government". "Is this what we need, to limit, to make basic rights and freedoms useless?" he asked.
These "bills", he added, were created to castrate, to limit freedom of expression, which is one of the basic fundamental rights and freedoms. Don't waste the time of the "parliament" with this nonsense, he said and asked that the motion for urgent debate on the "bills" be withdrawn, calling it a mentality of irresponsibility and lack of seriousness.
If an attempt is made on the part of the "government", he continued, to pass them then "we will create resentment towards the president" (PS: phrase referring to the "bill" for criticisms and comments against the TC leader). We will also ask for our "immunity" to be lifted and put ourselves at the disposal of the "law" for fines, the opposition PTK chairman added.
"What do you think you are doing? Can there be an offence that invokes dissatisfaction? That is, to have no opposition? Who is sitting up there, the king?" he said, addressing the leaders of the three "co-ruling" parties. "You have outdone yourselves. If anything read them. After all these years you are bringing a ban on publications. In this age, are you afraid of books and pens? These are things that go back 100 years to basic freedoms and rights. This is not going to get through committee. You have hit the bottom of nonsense. It is unacceptable to bring these things through the emergency procedure."
The laws created in Germany under Hitler, he continued, were fascist, but they were consistent. These "laws," he said, are fascist, undemocratic and irrational.
Criticisms were made by other PKK and CL "MPs"
Taking the floor, "Prime Minister", Unal Ustel said that there was an effort to modernize the existing "legislation" which he said was a colonial relic from 1921. At this point, PBC "MPs" started shouting in "parliament" against Mr. Ustel and criticizing his report. He then, not completing his speech, stepped down from the podium and sat down in his seat.
A new round of statements by the PTK president and other opposition "MPs" followed and finally, after a confrontation with the "president" of the "parliament" on the counting for or against the procedure of accepting the urgency, the "government" side agreed to postpone the debate for a week on these 3 "bills".
It should be noted that this debate and confrontation was taking place while outside the "parliament" the protest of the T/C "community existence" platform was in progress.
These bills were included in the latest economic "protocol" of Turkey pseudo-state.
Source: KYPE
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