Ankara Milliyet
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit stated that Turkey now projects the light
of education and knowledge to the every corner of the world and said,
"Determined steps are being taken in order to protect our children and youth
from the influence of trends and countries that are against secularism."
The General Board of the Parliament met with a special agenda due to the
80th Anniversary of its foundation. Party leaders and Parliament members
were accompanied by the General Staff Commander Huseyin Kivrikoglu, other
commanders and the Head of Turkmenistan Parliament Sahat Muradov in the
session which started at 2 p.m. yesterday.
The opening speech of the meeting was given by the Parliament Chairman
Yildirim Akbulut. In his speech Akbulut compared the 1924 Constitution and
the European Union norms, and noticed the similarities.
The Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on the other hand referred to the employed
children who recently marched and said, "The rally was meaningful. I hope
the families, related institutions and the entire society will notice their
voices. This target may be considered as an imaginative one. But the
Education Reform that we are carrying out and the other studies would make
this dream come true."
Bahceli: "Modern Constitution"
Deputy Prime Minister and the Nationalist Action leader
Devlet Bahceli
on the other hand stated that in the 80th anniversary of the foundation of
national independence principle, the democratisation process shoudl no more
be delayed. Bahceli said, to achieve this, the first thing to be done is to
prepare a more modern and democratic constitution that accepts national
independency as the basis for its legitimacy.