The Turkish Constitutional Court on Wednesday has annulled some parts of a package of constitutional reforms, backed up by the country’s ruling party AKP. The court accepted the appeal from opposition partially and annulled the alleged key parts of the package which would restrain the power of judiciary and army. The remaining parts will be put to a referendum.

Vice president of parliamentary group of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Bengi Yýldýz has said “the annulment by the constitutional court are not such a big deal as it is launched by the government. Although some provisions regarding assignment of members to Constitution Court and Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) have been annulled they are more about the procedures and the merits of the constitution remain the same.”       

Bengi Yýldýz also discussed that the annulment are a result of a consensus between the ruling party and the deep-state in Turkey.

Regarding the BDP’s call for boycotting the referendum Yýldýz said “The ruling from the constitutional court will not change our decision for boycott. We have been suggesting that the reform package was not responding the needs and demands of the people. It was a result of power clashes within the state. Now we see that there is a consensus and even CHP [the main opposition party] will support it.”