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May 27th 1996
Dedeman Ankara Hotel
Nazire Dedeman
Founder President of Umut Foundation
Speech Text
Honorable Minister,
Dear participant and valuable guests, welcome to our symposium on Recent Developments of Public Law with the organization of the Foundation, Marmara University Center for Financial Research and Application of and Kansas School of Law.
The Umut Foundation was established by the Dedeman Family to commemorate the memory of the children they have lost.
The aim of Umut Foundation is: To empower our youth, who are the safeguard of the future, with qualities and skills fit for leadership which enable them to follow the path of Ataturks teachings, thus assisting them to take part in the development of our country and to be beneficial to humankind; to help them internalize the rule of law and contribute to the application of it; to encourage them to favor peaceful means in resolving conflicts, following the dictum Peace at Home, Peace in the World set by our leader Ataturk; and in this context, to teach them skills of peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace building.
Although emphasizing too much the concepts of state of law and rule of law, these concepts are not clear in the mind (conscious) of the people of our country. And this arises from the impression of the individuals that this subject is applying only to the law makers. However, societies, who possess the civic rights and responsibility, are generating and should generate the law and the justice. I know that the world needs it, especially our country. Honorable societies are societies who are respectful to the law and who are able to protect the right to live as a human being. Honor is the scale of respectability of peace and the leader compass of development which never deviate from rights and freedom. And we know that the honor of a human being is equivalent to the assimilation of the state of law, and to the protection and the development of the law.
Law and rights are not seen just as institutions which define the crime and determine the penal, but they are seen as a frame which offers an insight into the development and the living as human being. This kind of thing is possible by the introduction of the law and the state of law concepts to our daily living. Because law and justice become concrete with the activities of the citizens who want it and who make efforts toward this desire. Law is not static. It needs to be observed methodically and systematically, and needs to be modernized by todays conditions.
I thank on behalf of our Committee the Net Group of Companies and its President Honorable Besin TIBUK for their material aid and spiritual support to organize this symposium.
By the way, I thank the Chairman of Turkish Airlines and the Members of the Board of Directors and the firm Siemens Nixdorff for their contributions.
Moreover, I thank the speechmakers who will contribute to the symposium with their valuable opinions.
I wish the symposium to be successful and to be beneficial to all the societies.
The achievement of a peaceful society is only possible with the achievement of the rule of law.
A future full of hope to all of you.
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