{"id":3916,"date":"2022-10-31T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disktekstil.org\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:00:50","slug":"workers-century-declaration-a-democratic-and-social-republic-for-a-laws-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disktekstil.org\/en\/workers-century-declaration-a-democratic-and-social-republic-for-a-laws-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"WORKERS’ CENTURY DECLARATION: A DEMOCRATIC AND SOCIAL REPUBLIC FOR A LAWS’ TURKEY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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31 October 2022\/67<\/strong><\/p>\n

WORKERS’ 100TH ANNIVERSARY STATEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

WITH THE DEMOCRATIC AND SOCIAL REPUBLIC<\/strong><\/p>\n

TURKEY OF LABOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are at a moment of decision for our country, on the threshold of the second century of the Republic.<\/p>\n

It should be noted at the outset that although the TDK dictionary defines it as “the form of government in which the nation retains its sovereignty and uses it through deputies elected for certain periods”, the “Republican concept” represents much more than that for our country.<\/p>\n

Today, at a time of decision, we have a historical responsibility to talk, discuss and implement together how a “Democratic and Social Republic” that our country deserves and where workers will have a say and decision can be established.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, the neoliberal strategy of destruction, which has destroyed all the foundations of the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Republic for nearly half a century, and on the other hand, the autocratic one-man mentality that emerged as a result of this strategy has left our country in a wreck. We have only one way to avoid falling under this rubble: to carry the Republic into the future by re-establishing it in its own meaning, namely with popular sovereignty, and by making it a secular, social and democratic state of law.<\/p>\n

In order to strengthen the Republic with popular sovereignty and carry it to the future, it is necessary to correctly understand the sovereign policy that has destroyed all the foundations of the Republic:<\/p>\n