Seizure of Will and Realities on Trustees
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SEIZURE OF WILL AND REALITIES ON TRUSTEES 1 INDEX INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................4 1. The Process Leading to the March 31 Elections ...........................................................................5 1.1. HDP’s Nomination Process ...................................................................................................5 1.2. AKP’s Efforts to Distort the Election in Favor of Itself ...........................................................6 1.3. Pressures for Impeding the Elections ................................................................................. 10 2. What happened on March 31, 2019 and Later ........................................................................... 13 2.1. Rejection of HDP's Objections to HEB ................................................................................ 14 2.2. Usurping of Mandate with Decree Laws............................................................................. 15 2.3. Revoking of Council Memberships ..................................................................................... 17 2.4. X-ray and Police Enforcement at the Entrances of Municipalities ....................................... 18 2.5. Attack in Diyadin Municipality ........................................................................................... 18 2.6. Kayapınar Zarokistan and the Municipality Raid ................................................................. 19 2.7. No Membership for Turkish Union of Municipalities .......................................................... 20 3. Coup of August 19 and After ..................................................................................................... 20 3.1. 19 Coup of August 19, 2019 ............................................................................................... 20 3.2. Example of Southeastern Anatolia Municipalities Union (SAMU) ....................................... 23 3.3. 'Conquest' of Municipalities ............................................................................................... 23 3.4. Trustees Appointed to Trustees ......................................................................................... 24 3.5. Trustee Panorama ............................................................................................................. 24 4. Co-Chair .................................................................................................................................... 26 4.1. Women's Participation in Local Politics .............................................................................. 26 4.2. Social Legitimacy of the Co-Chair System ........................................................................... 29 4.3. Legal Basis of the Co-Chair System ..................................................................................... 29 5. (İL)Legal Aspect of Trustee Appointments ................................................................................. 31 5.1. Legal Aspect of the State of Emergency Declaration .......................................................... 31 5.2. Legal Aspect of Decree Laws of the State of Emergency ..................................................... 32 5.3. Legal Aspect of Decree Law No. 674 .................................................................................. 33 5.4. Accusations Deemed a Justification for Trustee Appointments .......................................... 34 5.5. Revoking of the Right to Vote and to be Elected ................................................................ 37 5.6. Trustee Appointments ....................................................................................................... 37 5.7. Trustee Appointments in Terms of the European Charter of Local Self-Government .......... 39 5.8. Turkey Report of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local Governments ......................... 41 5.9. Statement by the Venice Commission on the Appointments of Trustees ............................ 41 6. Damages in Municipalities Taken Back from Trustees ................................................................ 43 6.1. Corruptions in Municipalities with Trustees ....................................................................... 43 2 6.2. Attacks and Destructions by Trustees ................................................................................ 46 6.3. Trustees Extortion of Women's Gains ................................................................................ 49 6.4. Staff Recruitment of Trustees ............................................................................................ 52 6.5. An Example of Works and Transactions Violating the Tender Legislation ........................... 53 6.6. Debiting of Municipalities .................................................................................................. 54 6.7. Example of Mardin Metropolitan Municipality ................................................................... 55 7. Falsification of the Ministry of Interior ...................................................................................... 59 8. Activities of HDP Municipalities ................................................................................................. 72 8.1. Infrastructure and Superstructure Works........................................................................... 72 8.2. Social Municipality Studies ................................................................................................ 81 8.3. Women's Policies............................................................................................................... 84 8.4. Youth and Child Works ...................................................................................................... 90 8.5. Culture, Art and Sports Activities ....................................................................................... 96 8.6. Ecological and Cooperative Works ................................................................................... 104 8.7. Works for Elderly, Disabled and Patients.......................................................................... 109 8.8. Works on Street Animals ................................................................................................. 111 8.9. Combating Coronavirus ................................................................................................... 113 8.10. Our Projects ................................................................................................................. 114 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................. 119 3 INTRODUCTION Governance is an area where social needs are regulated. Local governments, on the other hand, are the main areas of social governance where these needs are met by establishing a social connection on the spot. Municipalities and municipal councils are the most important bodies of democracy and democratic government in the local area. Municipalities are local projections of the universal culture of democracy. In democratic systems, local government areas have wider service and budget opportunities, while in authoritarian and totalitarian systems, where democratic government is weak, an understanding and system prevails where the center spreads itself to the local area. In this context, the effectiveness of local governments is one of the most important indicators of democratic life and democratic governance system. HDP municipalities are transparent and democratic institutions where groups belonging to different identities, cultures and beliefs are active and effective in the administration at the maximum rate. In HDP municipalities, equal participation and representation of different cultures, beliefs and gender identities, especially women, are ensured at all stages and levels of policy-making processes at the highest level. In addition, a co-chairmanship system is implemented in HDP municipalities. The co-chairmanship system is a model built to ensure equal representation of women in policy-making and implementation processes based on gender equality and freedom. This system was put into practice as a result of a deep-rooted experience of women's struggle. The democratic, ecological, women's libertarian and social municipality understanding that has long been applied by the political tradition inherited by the HDP has been accepted by the people, has grown steadily with the consent and approval of the people and has been manifested by the will of the people at the ballot box in every election. However, in order to eliminate this practice of municipality, the government appointed trustees to municipalities of DBP, a component of the HDP, in 2016. The trustee regime, which ignores the will of the people and eliminates democratic functioning in local governments, has become the policy of the government, and trustees have been appointed to the HDP municipalities after the local elections on March 31, 2019. In order to usurp the will of the people, the AKP government first wanted to pass the trustee law on August 19, 2016 with the Bag Bill Draft No. 411. However, as a result of the active opposition of our party in the parliament, this draft law was removed from the Bag Bill at the last stage. But political power has not given up on its goal of usurping the will of the people. Along