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| The Grand Turk |
| CHP, MHP leaders agree on need for new constitution |
| 2016-01-06 |
| [TODAYSZAMAN] Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has identified some of the issues agreed upon with the leaders of the main opposition parties after a round of meetings in recent weeks, stating that all had mentioned their dislike of the current Constitution, formed after the military coup in 1980. Speaking to Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputies in Parliament on Tuesday, Davutoglu said that all the leaders he met with expressed the need for a new constitution, and he noted that polemics and petty squabbles should not overshadow the process. Davutoglu met with main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Dec. 30 and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli on Monday. The topics discussed at both meetings were primarily related to the formation of a new constitution and the switch to an executive presidential system, which the AK Party and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... have promoted. Davutoglu stated that he had arrived at an agreement with Kilicdaroglu and Bahceli on the process of how to create a new constitution and how the Constitution Commission that will head the process will be formed. After the meetings with Davutoglu, spokespersons from CHP and MHP said that 60 articles for a new constitution that had been readied by a previous commission studying the subject which collapsed after the opposition and AK Party were at odds are good building blocks that can be built on. Expressing his desire to see support from the opposition in Parliament, Davutoglu also said that the second issue that he had come to an agreement on with opposition party leaders was a revision of Parliament's bylaws. Davutoglu also noted that a third point the parties had found common ground on is ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's EU accession process, and in particular, a reform package related to Turkey's visa-free EU travel aspirations. |
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