Turkeys Recep Tayyip Erdogan Seeks to Consolidate Power With Overhaul of Constitution

[riversedge]

Source: WSJ





Proposed changes give head of state sweeping powers to govern by decree
By Emre Peker


Updated Dec. 10, 2016 12:02 p.m. ET

ISTANBUL—Turkey’s government submitted a bill Saturday to overhaul the constitution and concentrate power in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office, a controversial move that risks further destabilizing the country amid myriad security and economic threats.

The bill includes measures that would call for Turkey’s president to run his own cabinet and acquire executive powers currently vested in the parliamentary government. The changes give the head of state sweeping powers to govern by decree, and could potentially allow...



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The writing was on the wall given his crackdown on civil liberties this last year.

[shraby]

1. We're close to the gop being able to call a constitutional convention. That won't be pretty.

[WhiteTara]

3. They rolled out their constitution at the RNC

and it doesn't contain a bill of rights. As a matter of fact, it contains no rights.

[Initech]

5. That scares the living shit out of me.

I've been 150% against a new constitutional convention for years for this very reason. With the GOP getting a stranglehold on our government and Trumpenfuror in power, it could happen. This is a war I would join the resistance army to prevent.

[WhiteTara]

2. This is a blueprint for Scum and Co

Martial law is coming.

[Wolf Frankula]

4. But it's Temporary!

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary emergency. Byebye to the Turkish republic if this passes.

Wolf

[dhol82]

6. True

I cry for the rights of the non-fundamentalists.
Watch for a return to pre-Ataturk Turkey.