The small National Assemblies of Turkey have decided to present the 10 Demands, which has become traditional with the applications in the previous elections, to the President of the Republic who will be elected by popular voting.
The small National Assemblies of Turkey have decided to present the 10 Demands, which has become traditional with the applications in the previous elections, to the President of the Republic who will be elected by popular voting.
How the process works:
Lists consisting of the 10 most important demands of the Non-Governmental Organizations (associations, foundations, initiatives) and the professional organizations (chambers, unions) from the next President of the Republic in the currently active 22 cities* are collected. Until 15 July 2014, the 10 most demanded topics will form the explanatory text for the corresponding city – which is not like a survey, rather something more open.
When this information coming from the 22 cities is combined, the 10 most demanded topics in this combination forms the list of the General small National Assembly of Turkey (TkMM). The candidates will be visited and those demands will be presented to them, and their opinions on the subject matter will be asked. They will be asked to explain the reasons of their opinions further, if they do agree with the demands as well.
The small National Assemblies (TkMM’s) state that they have already requested for appointments with the currently certain three candidates of Presidency, to visit them as a committee in either Istanbul or in Ankara, between the dates 16 July and 31 July 2014. The Assemblies expect the 10 Demands to be taken seriously, since they are formed as the common ground of many institutions.
*Participants of the currently active small National Assemblies of Turkey in 22 cities include:
56 professional chambers in total (2,8 chambers per city),
103 unions in total (5,15 unions per city),
503 NGOs in total (26,6 NGOs per city),
Resulting with 672 participants (25,65 per city).