In addition, it regards allowing foreign observers during elections, as proposed in the reform package, as "capitulation".In the general staff's view, allowing private television stations to broadcast in Kurdish would encourage separatists, specifically the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Pored toga, ona smatra da dolazak stranih posmatrača za nadgledanje izbora, što je takođe predloženo u reformskom paketu, predstavlja «kapitulaciju». Prema mišljenju Generalštaba, odobravanje emitovanja programa na kurdskom na privatnim televizijskim kanalima će ohrabriti separatiste, posebno Kurdistansku radničku partiju.