Nowadays, Turkish public opinion is engrossed in the domestic security package that has been proposed by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. The major amendments envisaged by the new regulation include:l Molotov cocktails shall be considered offensive weapons,l Masked protesters shall be punished,l The punishment for armed protestors shall be aggravated. They shall be sentenced to imprisonment for between two and four years,l Police detention period shall be 24 hours under the supervision of the deputy governor and the police chief. This period could be extended to 48 hours with a prosecutorial verdict,l Protestors shall pay compensation for damages that result from protests,l A call for hate and terrorism on virtual platforms shall be considered an offense,l A police oversight commission shall be established to supervise police authorities. The commission shall include nongovernmental organizations, l A parliamentary commission shall be established to supervise intelligence wiretappings with the inclusion of parliamentarians from all parties. Turkey, which is set to discuss the above-mentioned regulation in Parliament, has only recently come through a 30-year domestic conflict that has claimed 50,000 lives thus far. Armed units of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which was the main actor in this conflict, are still within the borders of Turkey. Despite the reconciliation process, which was initiated by the government and supported by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK incited street protests in southeastern Turkey in October 2014. More than 50 civilians lost their lives during the violent incidents.Apart from the concrete situation facing Turkey, another reality is that the country is heading toward general elections that are scheduled for June 2015. It has been frequently reported by the media that the PKK has accumulated heavy weapons in rural areas ahead of elections. It is undoubtedly the primary task of the state to ensure that people living in these areas can go to the election polls without pressure from that organization.The picture is very clear. However, opposition parties in Parliament unyieldingly object to this domestic security package. The PKK's legal wing, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has gone as far as to threaten the government with locking Parliament.The draft security bill will neither grant exceptional authority to the state and police, nor will it jeopardize freedoms. Moreover, the articles cited in the bill are smooth when compared to the security practices of the U.S. and EU countries, including the U.K., Germany and France. On top of this, Turkey is a country that is looking to join the EU and pledges to meet all the legal regulations in line with EU norms. This package is compatible with all international agreements and the Copenhagen criteria in particular.In line with its EU perspective, the AK Party government has repudiated demands such as the reinstatement of the death penalty, a clamor that has arisen among Turks, as they are driven by security concerns rocking the agenda. Now, the government has to ensure public security, and one of the primary tasks of the government is to protect the public during the 2015 elections, which will be held under the surveillance of international watchdogs. Certainly, all of these are also the requirements that Turkey has to fulfill in its EU accession process.We have so far witnessed that EU institutions consider minimum security measures excessive for Turkey, although the same measures are practiced in EU countries. But this time, all of us expect support from the EU as citizens of a candidate country that demands minimum public security. The only thing that the EU should do is examine the draft bill in an objective way and compare it to the security measures of their own countries without being deceived by the manipulations of terrorist lobbies. Obviously, the EU was not established just to hamper reform processes in Turkey, which has been waiting at its doorstep for membership for many years.