sPAT October 2016 Agenda: Statutory Decrees and Their Consequences

Small Provincial Assemblies of Turkey are holding meetings with MPs and civil society representatives on the first weekend of October with the general agenda: “Statutory Decrees and Their Consequences.”

sPAt has continued its meetings in summer, which were extra meetings outside of the schedule, following extraordinary developments in summer. There have been investigations, dismissals, suspensions, custodies and arrests in many bureaucratic areas like the Turkish Armed Forces, Security, governorates and District Governorates following the coup attept on July 15. Statutory Decrees have been enacted as well during the declared State of Emergency. The State of Emergency has recently been extended with an announcement made by Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş. 

The Statutory Decrees and their consequences are being debated in terms of their effect on freedoms, as well as in the area of law, civil-academic-economic and military areas.

Small Provincial Assemblies of Turkey are holding meetings with MPs and civil society representatives on the first weekend of October with the general agenda: “Statutory Decrees and Their Consequences.”

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.