It is true democracy that the Turkish people have not tasted for decades. The only reason that the Military had to step in in the past, was because Partycracy did not work. If real democracy with primary elections would be established in Turkey, these corrupt and incompetent governments would be replaced by better ones and the Military would have no reason to ever interfering. They closed all the parties in 1980. Thus, present parties did not have time to become institutionalized.
Turkish parties have no grass roots.
They are financed by the government. That is one more reason for the lack of bond between the people and their representatives in parliament. All of that show that the state of the Turkish State at the start of 2001 is not very pretty. Many people in Turkey, including President Sezer, understand that the best solution to the ills of the country is to change the Law of Political Parties. Such a law will never pass the parliament.