Now with a similar approach, this government wants to stick a rod into the bee's nest in the name of social peace as the party in power. It is clear that the sentences which are being tightened up with this measure are not going to provide justice but will once again place the prisons on society's agenda as a problem. The ministry with its cell-type measure is trying to separate the people in the prison from each other, to keep them alone and to disperse as a satisfactory political vehicle. This has been tried frequently, but never succeeded. The lessons of the past have not understood.
Turkey is a society which has never known democracy.
Democracy here has never been incorporated into the country, no democratic traditions have been established. The reality which this nonrecognition expresses is at the same time an expression of hopelessness. Of course in countries in which the organizations and traditions which democracy brings have been created, it has only been after centuries of struggle that this result could be achieved. Humanity has reached the level it has today in the struggle for democracy by paying a high price in terms of people's lives and blood. A high price has been paid in Turkey too and a long road travelled.