the general idea, i do not want to groupthink but the general idea is a recommendation about more time for the task force to build a work plan, house some role in the court plan or selection -- work plan or selection. that is the first recommendation. at the end of each item, as rio is due. -- as we always do. >> i would vote no to include that. we have spent a significant amount of time. to the extent we can cut things off of our list, that is our advantage. i do not want to add to the time we have party spent. i think our time is best spent drawing a map. >> these recommendations, and the war, if that is what you're referencing, is for ms. melara. >> no. >> got it. sorry. member lam: i agree. i think eight months was enough time. >> everybody can say what they wanted to. saarinen made some assumptions. -- sorry i made some assumptions. member schreiber: there is nothing in my experience that expect -- suggested we would have been benefited by having more time. i was satisfied with the proposed suggestion that we save the city consider those things and leave it at that. i would be hap

supposedly new turkish gestures, but washing gives approval amounts to little more than wishful groupthink and is not going to solve the problem. after 30 years of failed efforts, where are we today? harshly on dark playing swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where it armies clash by night. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. let me turn it over to levent koker. >> thank you, michael and thank you to the middle east institute for inviting me to this very important event as a speaker. we have a time constraint, so i'll try to be very brief, but i have to touch upon several important points regarding the constitutional aspects of what we have been discussing so far regarding the system changed from a presidential as him from elementary government -- some form, the problems we have with the kurds in turkey. let me begin this debate over presidential as some. the tradition and turkish constitutional system has been in history i mean, the tradition has been a parliamentary form of government. dating back to the ottoman times, the first constitution we had in 1876, we al

the word that i would use is " groupthink."f the individuals in these companies -- high scores, a +'s in college, individuals who got together and there was an entire industry that missed the subprime bubble. let's go back. this was not the first time. if you go back, you can see it this happened during the internet bubble of the late 1990's. it sort of happened during the 1987 stock-market crash. you have these cycles that occurred and then there is a crash that occurs. in hindsight, it is so obvious. that is called creeping determinism. things that happened in the past must have been so obvious because they have been. i remember being at large meetings and people saying we know there is a bubble occurring somewhere and people thinking it was in china. i think a big factor here is groupthink which you have individuals who breathe the same air who are together all the time who come together and form the same opinions, and therefore lacked the diversity of perspectives. having more individuals within these organizations at the t