102_25 substantive_scope 25. Employees’ Trade Unions (Kamu Emekçileri Sendikaları Konfederasyonu- hereinafter referred to as the “KESK”). In 2001 the Turkish Parliament 2 BALCI v. TURKEY DECISION prepared a draft bill to amend the Act on Trade Unions. While this draft was being discussed before Parliament, the “KESK” organised a meeting in a park in Ankara to protest against the draft. The aim was to draw public attention to it and to achieve the withdrawal of the bill, which in their view did not meet international standards.