Turkey has suffered immensely at the hands of terrorists and activists over the decades. In recent years, Turkey has had to live with the Kurdish terrorist activities of the PKK, while it also had to cope with the extreme left-wing DHKP-C terrorist group and the attacks of al-Qaida.With the military-dominated period coming to an end nearly a decade ago, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) began to relax some of the restrictive laws and introduced more freedom and liberties. Security courts were abolished and judicial measures were taken to end pressure on the Kurds.With the peace and reconciliation process started by the Turkish government that led to an end to PKK violence in eastern and southeastern Turkey, the Turkish government was preparing to launch more democratic reforms when everything took a U-turn, and the government was pushed to introduce new restrictive measures.Turkey's militant Kurds encouraged by calls from the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HDP) took to the streets to protest the alleged inactivity of the Ankara government against the extremist religious militants attacking the Syrian city of Kobani. However, these were not peaceful protests, and the extremists unleashed their violent acts across the country, destroying public and private property, harassing people and terrorizing society. Young people wearing snow masks wreaked havoc in the streets of Turkey. They threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks at security forces and burned cars, buses and stores. The aftershocks of these events were reverberating until very recently in the cities of southeastern Turkey. More than two dozens people lost their lives in the events.The government informed the Kurdish politicians of Turkey that the peace process could not continue in earnest without the restoration of law and order. The government also introduced a new draft bill that was supposed to end the violence and to make sure that public order is not violated again. The proposed law curbs freedoms and liberties to such an extent that police are being given the right to apprehend citizens upon the "suspicion" that they may be up to something. Young people throwing missiles and Molotov cocktails will be treated the same as those using firearms. The government says that all this is designed to preserve law and order.The opposition parties, led by the Republican People's Party (CHP), beg to differ. They are now putting up a strong opposition to oppose the ratifying of the law. Efforts by the government to even start the debate in Parliament have failed, and each session has been marked by violent fights on the parliamentary floor - so much so that some deputies have been hospitalized. So the law designed to preserve public order has in fact created disorder in Parliament.Opponents of the law are trying to win outside support by saying that the law will curb freedom and give police uncontrolled authority to arbitrarily arrest citizens, which will lead to serious violations of the rights of individuals. However, it is a fact that even in the U.S., they have had to take extreme measures to boost homeland security and will not allow street protests to turn violent or threaten public and private property. The same goes for all EU-member states. The U.S. and the EU have to see that Turkey faces threats of all kinds and does not have the luxury of allowing the potential terrorists a free hand, especially when an unknown number of dangerous extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham have reportedly slipped into Turkey after moving out of the Syrian city of Kobani just across our border. So the PKK may well be the least of our worries. This is what the Turkish opposition has to take on board.What is important here is to establish the fine balance of preserving the rights and freedoms of the individual, while taking steps to put an end to public disorder. The government has to do some deep thinking on the draft bill to secure this.