I think I made it clear in my presentation that the state of emergency measures came especially as a result of the significant trauma faced by the Turkish state and Turkish society. What I mean by the Turkish journey for democratization is that immediately after the.... I believe that, because of the reasons I enumerated: society's demands, the European Union commitments, and the commitments to the European Court of Human Rights and other international organizations. My thinking is that after the alleviation of these threats, probably an ending of these investigations...because right now the commission, which will be responsible for handling the decisions about the firings and all of this, is taking care of these cases one by one. I don't know the details of these cases, but I'm very optimistic that after the end of these threats and threat perceptions, and after the end of this trauma, there will be steps towards democratization, because the democratization process in Turkey has been there for the last 60 years.
On April 17th, 2018. See this statement in context.