CHP's proposals submitted to the commission revealed

A comprehensive study, prepared based on the 29-article Democratization Package announced to the public by the Republican People's Party (CHP) on August 12, 2025, was presented to the National Solidarity, Fraternity, and Democracy Commission during its 19th meeting held today.

According to the report in T24, the introduction of the presented study states that the steps to be taken to ensure democratization and resolve justice issues in Turkey should be planned with a perspective that does not exclude the Kurdish issue but is not limited to it. The text emphasizes that the majority of the injustices and lawlessness experienced in the country stem not from the current Constitution, but from the failure to implement even the minimum standards of fundamental rights and freedoms within the Constitution and from political interventions in the judiciary.

It was stated that the CHP sees the establishment of democratization and social peace as possible only by ending anti-democratic legal regulations and practices. The text also included statements noting that the decisions of the Constitution, the Constitutional Court (AYM), and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are systematically not implemented, and this is defined as a “de-constitutionalization project.”

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT EXCLUDED FROM THE COMMISSION'S SCOPE

The study recalled that it was an important step when it was announced during the first meeting of the National Solidarity, Fraternity, and Democracy Commission, established in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) through the efforts of the CHP, that constitutional amendment efforts were excluded from the commission's scope by all political parties.

The text further emphasized that a constitution cannot be drafted in an environment where the constitution has effectively been suspended and where there is no freedom of expression, and that the obstacles to the implementation of the Constitution must be removed and political pressure on the judiciary must be ended.

The study, prepared by CHP commission members, was shared with all members of the commission by CHP Group Deputy Chairman and Ankara Deputy Murat Emir. The presented text included concrete proposals on topics such as judicial independence, freedom of expression, trustee appointments, social peace, women's and children's rights, hate crimes, the implementation of AYM and ECHR decisions, the penal execution regime, freedom of belief, and the personal rights of the security bureaucracy.

The CHP requested that the prepared study be evaluated on the commission's agenda.

MAIN HEADINGS IN THE TEXT ANNOUNCED

The study presented to the commission included the following headings:

It was requested that administrative and political obstacles to the implementation of Constitutional Court and European Court of Human Rights decisions be removed.

A call was made to end administrative and political practices that prevent the exercise of rights and freedoms contained in the Constitution.

It was proposed to comply with the principle of legal certainty in the Anti-Terror Law, to re-regulate the crime of inciting the public to hatred and hostility, and to remove obstacles to access, regulations described as censorship laws, and barriers to freedom of the press and organization.

It was emphasized that a democratic political environment must be created for the resolution of the Kurdish issue.

It was demanded that the practice of appointing trustees in local governments be ended, and that arrests and lawsuits aimed at using the judiciary to design politics and suppress social opposition be terminated.

It was requested that politicians and bureaucrats who were stated to have been unjustly arrested within the scope of the March 19 coup attempt be released, that those imprisoned in cases targeting social opposition, especially the Gezi Park trial, be set free, that the secret witness practice be ended, that effective remorse be prevented from turning into slander, that restrictions on the right to defense be lifted, and that arbitrary decisions by prison administrative boards be prevented.

It was proposed that the crimes of insulting the President and public officials be abolished, and that the crimes of assassination and physical attack against the President be re-regulated.

Headings included effective combat against crimes against humanity and torture, the punishment of hate crimes and hate speech, and the transformation of the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey into an independent structure.

It was emphasized that there must be an effective fight against violence against women and children.

It was demanded that anti-democratic practices in the judiciary and penal system that are contrary to human rights be ended.

It was proposed to establish an order in which the state is neutral toward beliefs, to grant places of worship status to cemevis, to close the Alevi-Bektashi Culture and Cemevi Presidency, to turn Madımak into a museum, and to prevent discrimination in public recruitment.

Improving the personal rights of security forces and civil servants working in the security bureaucracy was among the headings.