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Erdoğan Appoints Committee to Draft New Constitution, Opposition Warns Term Limits at Risk
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed a team of legal experts to draft a new constitution, starting this week.
- Erdogan argues that the existing constitution, created after a military coup in 1980, is outdated and retains military influences despite amendments.
- Currently, Erdogan cannot run again unless early elections are held or legal changes are made to the constitution.
- Erdogan has claimed that the new constitution is not for his personal benefit but for the country, denying intentions to extend his power.
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The President of Turkey, Erdoğan, is preparing a new constitution in order to be able to run again, but for that he needs partners in parliament.
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Islamist Erdogan Announces Drafting Process to Replace Turkey's Secular Constitution
Reports on Thursday confirmed that Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan had organized a constitutional committee, featuring ten lawyers and mostly senior members of his Justice and Development Party (AKP), to replace the nation's current constitution. The post Islamist Erdogan Announces Drafting Process to Replace Turkey’s Secular Constitution appeared first on Breitbart.
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History tells us that we have had 20 constitutions since we were Republic, while the United States has had only one since 1789 and amended 27 times.
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