sPAT meetings’ agenda in July 2016: “July 15 Military Coup Attempt”

The sPAT now gathers in active provinces on the last week of July following these extraordinary developments, with the agenda, “July 15 Military Coup Attempt.” 

Turkey has experienced a long and dark night on July 15. New visuals continue to emerge on the process, which started with the closing of the Bosphorus Bridge from both sides and continued with the bombing of the Parliament with F-16s. Following the meeting of National Security Council and the Council of Ministers on July 20, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared a State of Emergency on the same night across the country. Now the eyes are on the Supreme Military Council (YAS) meeting on July 28. 

Giving a break after the meetings on June 2016 until the next Legislative Session, the sPAT now gathers in active provinces on the last week of July following these extraordinary developments, with the agenda, “July 15 Military Coup Attempt.”

The time and location of the meetings are as indicated below:

Information on the meetings:

In case there is more than one person representing the same organization, only one of those representatives can take the floor at once. The time periods indicated below may be increased or decreased as long as all participants agree on the change and the flow of the meeting is not disrupted.

In our meetings, special guests speak about the general agenda for 10 minutes following the introduction video presented at the beginning of each meeting. After the special guests, the turn of speech is given first to Non-Governmental Organizations for 5 minutes each, then to Political representatives for 5 minutes each. Once the first round is completed, either the second round, or a question-answer session beings; according to the number of attendance and to the common preferences of the participants. In the Q/A session, political party representatives have 2 minutes to answer the questions asked by the civil society in 15 seconds. In this session, the special guests may be asked questions as well. The same format is applied for the local agenda as well, and the meeting concludes.