We also wish to thank the United States Information Service, Rome, for facilitating the American·· participation in the meeting; the Institute of Strategic Studies of the WEU, Paris, for funding the Turkish participation in the meeting; and the Banca l'{azionale dell 'Agricoltura, Rome, for making the premises of the conference available. [...] These include the future of the party system and possible constitutional changes, the prospects for political lslamism and the political position of the armed forces, the human rights regime and the Kurdish question, and deeper changes affecting political culture, and r.be relationship between the state and civil society. [...] The alternative proposal, supported by the Motherland Party and the centre-left parties, called for the extension of the existing non-clerical state primary schools to cover the first eight years of education, and the gradual amalgamation of all junior high schools with the primary schools. [...] Baykal firmly rejected the idea of joining the government on the grounds that the move was designed to 'melt away the left': if the five laws were not passed by the end of the year, this would not be the CHP's fault, he claimed.l7 Given this fluid and confusing situation. [...] or that the leaders of small parties hope to blackmail the bigger ones into adopting them as candidates at the next elections_ Whatever the explanation, the Turkish experience demonstrates the difficulties of 'political engineering', or trying to reform the party structure by altering the election Jaws.
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