Turkey must be a new, explicitly religious Constitution in which the idea of a secular State is rejected. That, the Turkish Parliament President Ismail K Monday evening said.
Kahraman is a member of the AK Party of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There have been calls for party to the current Constitution, which was drawn up after the army had seized power in 1980, to replace. Erdogan wants more power and powers transferred to his own Office. But K added Monday that "the new Constitution should contain no secularism '.
The AK party has 317 of the 550 seats in Parliament and has 330 votes needed to organize a referendum on an amendment to the Constitution. That means it also needs votes from other parties. The question is whether this succeeds.
Kemal K.r., the leader of the main opposition party CHP, tweeted: "Secularism is the main principle of social peace. Secularism is there to ensure that everyone has religious freedom. '
No official State religion the current Turkish Constitution does not have an official State religion. That is thanks to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first president of Turkey, which in 1923 by Turkey a Republic was deleted from the Constitution and sharia law. From that moment a choked separation between mosque and State. But since the AK Party of Erdogan in power, Turkey is gradually showing more religious. For example, the headscarf ban is partly specified and it's become more difficult to buy drink.
Turkey live in predominantly Sunni Muslims, but a fifth of the 78 million inhabitants belongs to the Alevi flow. This includes Shiite Muslims, Sufis and Anatolian peoples. Also living there about 100 thousand Christians and 17 thousand Jews in Turkey.
In 2013 showed off an investigation that 12 percent of Turks want the sharia, the Islamic law, replaces the current legislation.
Under pressure the statements made by the Turkish Parliament President about entering an Islamic Constitution come at a time when Mr Erdogan's Government is under pressure because of the cords from the mouth of foreign journalists and opinion makers.
In Turkey, the Dutch columnist Ebru Umar held. She is now at liberty, but may not leave the country. Earlier this month, the German Chancellor Merkel for the block put after Erdogan issued an arrest warrant for the comedian Babjan, who hate close had written about the Turkish president.
By: Editorial UK Photo: AFP
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