Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Tuesday, May 10, at an event dedicated to the 154th anniversary of the creation of the State Council – the Supreme Administrative Court of Turkey, the need to adopt the new Constitution of the country, approved after the 1980 military coup, TASS reports.
“It is time to show the will and save our people from the current Constitution, which absorbed the spirit of the heirs on September 12 and is the fruit of the coup. We will definitely bring our country to the civil, free and incorporating the Constitution,” Erdogan said.
He recalled that in the referendum of 2017 in Turkey, amendments to the Constitution were adopted, thanks to which the presidential form of government instead of parliamentary was operating in the country today. According to Erdogan, the ruling party of justice and development he headed repeatedly proposed to adopt a new constitution in parliament. “Moreover, we proposed creating a commission to consider the draft new basic law with an equal representation in it of all parties, but all our attempts turned out to be in vain because of the disagreement position of opposition parties,” he said.
Turkish President recalled that in 2021 the party of justice and development again made the initiative to adopt a new Constitution, counting on the appropriate proposals of the opposition. “Since that time, we have not received any text, so we were forced to suspend our training,” he said.