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The Turkish Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO) has designated each political party with a title for their energy policies.
 

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) earned the title "energy on the free market"; the Republican People‘s Party‘s (CHP) title was "security"; the Democrat Party (DP) "national security"; the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) "global"; the Young Party (GP) "priority is the private sector"; the Felicity Party (SP) "nuclearization"; and the Grand Unity Party (BBP) "Turkic republics."

As the July 22 elections approach, the EMO touched on the different parties‘ energy policies. According to the study that EMO energy magazine published in its June 2007 edition, all political parties‘ programs include a plank on lessening Turkey‘s dependence on foreign energy, giving priority to domestic resources and preventing domestic energy inefficiency. While some parties give importance to energy policies and security based on progress, others used an environmental approach.

While just a few parties laid out clear proposals on this subject, most defined their policies in terms of the public and private sector, sometimes with terminology so vague as to be incomprehensible. The AK Party, the DP, the MHP, the GP and the SP expressed their intentions to focus more on nuclear energy in their programs. The EMO survey listed the political parties as follows:

AK Party: Stamp of approval for the curb market for energy

The AK Party bases its energy policy on "providing security and continuing the country‘s energy supplies and protecting national interests, establishing a competitive energy market, protecting the environment and human health." In its program, the party says: "With conditions that will take the necessary security and environment protection measures, nuclear energy plants will be built as an alternative or substitute investment for power plants fueled by foreign natural gas. We will provide the cheap energy that our economy needs."

CHP looks for security in energy

In their program where they stressed the importance of energy in developing the country, the CHP said energy is the determining factor in the country‘s industrialization and the strategic position. Its policy prioritizes "providing enough energy under the most productive and secure conditions, without harming the environment and in this aim assessing all technological possibilities."

Its program says, "The activities of electricity production, processing and distribution will be implemented and realized with the concept of producing the system that will be sufficient, secure and safe."

In the energy report prepared by the DP‘s research and development department, the stress is on a national energy policy. The DP explains its energy policy as "implementing a national energy policy that would assess Turkey‘s resources in accordance with the country‘s national interests on the basis of sustainable progress and that is environmental friendly, cheap and supports consumers."

MHP prefers ‘global energy‘

The MHP supports a global approach to the energy issue. Pointing out that investing in energy should be sustained in a planned way, it aims to "support Turkic republics and the private sector to invest abroad with the aim of ensuring that raw materials are provided for the industrial and energy sectors‘ needs in a cheap and safe way."

Here are the other parties‘ energy policies in brief: The GP stresses the need to prioritize the private sector. Also, it strongly underlines that coal should be used in energy production. The Freedom and Solidarity Party‘s (ÖDP) program and energy policy are represented with an ecological mindset that is against nuclear energy. The SP supports nuclear power, and the BBP supports investing in the Turkic republics.

(Today‘s Zaman, 03.07.2007) 

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