Turkish parliament speaker calls on party leaders to harmonize current laws with new constitution

7 June 2017
İsmail Kahraman, Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (Photo credit: Flickr)
İsmail Kahraman, Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (Photo credit: Flickr)
Turkish parliament speaker İsmail Kahraman has called on leaders of the country’s four political parties to gather in a meeting to discuss the harmonization of the existing legislation with the new constitution approved by a referendum on April 16. The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who have objected to the constitutional referendum, previously announced that they will not participate in any process that would be regarded as “legitimizing the constitutional amendment.”  
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