ANKARA (A.A) - 02.08.2002 - New Turkey Party (YTP) leader Ismail Cem said on Friday that State Minister Kemal Dervis would join YTP at the right time for Dervis.
Speaking to the press after meeting with State Minister Kemal Dervis, Cem said that they are together with Dervis.
Cem said that they make the party bigger and continue to do so, adding that State Minister Dervis has a special status within the government. ''Mr. Dervis has an economic responsibility which affects our daily life,'' he said.
''We are working to form a New Turkey, to strengthen our party and to make the modern majority to come to power in Turkey. On the one hand our party gets stronger, on the other hand, we search for a broader political togetherness...I respect the search of State Minister Dervis for such a broader political framework. Yet this does not change the basis, which is to make the New Turkey Party strong. We must give a better future to our children. The main thing is to solve the 50 percent of unemployment rate among people who feel isolated in big cities and to prevent the baby and children mortality rates among the poor people. It is to help the people living in poor conditions in rural areas of Anatolia. It is to activate the dynamics of Turkey,'' Cem said. Cem added that they share similar views with State Minister Kemal Dervis on these issues.