Çiçek presented 15-points roadmap for new Constitution
Çiçek presented 15-points roadmap for new Constitution
The Parliament's Constitutional Reconciliation Commission, which has been assigned the task of drafting the text of a new constitution for Turkey, has delivered a 15-point plan on the principles to be followed in the work.
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek met with senior editors of the country's newspapers and TV stations on Thursday morning. He introduced the roadmap, which lays out the guiding principles to be followed during the commission's work. The roadmap says three technical delegations of five persons each should be formed by the commission by November 15.
Until today the commission met four times. The commission has 12 members.
Çiçek said that the three technical delegations to be formed will coordinate the process of collecting views and suggestions from groups outside Parliament. “The first delegation will be in contact with political parties and constitutional agencies, the second with professional unions, the third with civil society groups, associations, foundations and representatives of religious and minority communities.”
Members of the Constitutional Reconciliation Commission Mustafa Þentop from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Süheyl Batum from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Tunca Toskay from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) along with Sýrrý Süreyya Önder and Ahmet Altýn from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) were at Thursday’s meeting.
The Parliament Speaker pointed out that the current constitution has been changed 17 times with 113 articles amended during these changes. “Despite all these changes, the 1982 Constitution has failed to outgrow the shadows of military custodianship cast around it and its image as a coup constitution, and it has never been approved by the people.”
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek met with senior editors of the country's newspapers and TV stations on Thursday morning. He introduced the roadmap, which lays out the guiding principles to be followed during the commission's work. The roadmap says three technical delegations of five persons each should be formed by the commission by November 15.
Until today the commission met four times. The commission has 12 members.
Çiçek said that the three technical delegations to be formed will coordinate the process of collecting views and suggestions from groups outside Parliament. “The first delegation will be in contact with political parties and constitutional agencies, the second with professional unions, the third with civil society groups, associations, foundations and representatives of religious and minority communities.”
Members of the Constitutional Reconciliation Commission Mustafa Þentop from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Süheyl Batum from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Tunca Toskay from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) along with Sýrrý Süreyya Önder and Ahmet Altýn from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) were at Thursday’s meeting.
The Parliament Speaker pointed out that the current constitution has been changed 17 times with 113 articles amended during these changes. “Despite all these changes, the 1982 Constitution has failed to outgrow the shadows of military custodianship cast around it and its image as a coup constitution, and it has never been approved by the people.”
