With around three weeks to go to the referendum on shifting Turkey to a presidential system, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish officials will not campaign for the charter referendum in the Netherlands and Germany amid the increasing tension.
Europe’s “masquerade ball’ is over, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told the continent following his most recent spat
Two articles in the proposed constitutional amendments will go into effect before the 2019 general elections if the “yes” votes emerge from the April 16 referendum, a chief presidential adviser has said.
Turkey’s opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) expelled four of its lawmakers on March 10, amid deepening rift within the party.
A split within the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) regarding the April 16 referendum that will decide whether the current parliamentary system should be replaced with an executive presidency has deepened with attacks against party dissidents.
Turkey’s Supreme Court has striped opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ of her party membership.
There are less than 40 days left until the referendum on constitutional amendments that will grant unprecedented power to Turkey’s president. But pollsters are having the hardest time in decades on how to distribute the undecided voters or not distribute them at all.
The approval of government-proposed constitutional amendments in the April 16 referendum will bring Turkey’s democracy back to pre-1789 French
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Voting against constitutional changes that will bring about the executive presi
The April 16 referendum on constitutional changes will be the day when “tutelage is destroyed,” Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, comparing the day to July 16, 2016, the day after the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt, widely believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
The constitutional amendments to be voted on in April will turn the president into a “one-man ruler” but “checked by parliament,” Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, rejecting opposition claims that the system will cement authoritarian rule in Turkey.
The constitutional amendments to be voted on in April will turn the president into a “one-man ruler” but “checked by parliament,” Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, rejecting opposition claims that the system will cement authoritarian rule in Turkey.
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has accused the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and its leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, of “making terror propaganda,” due to a social media post shared by CHP
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has slammed nationalist circles that have launched a campaign against constitutional amendments that will usher in an executive presidential government system in spite of the party leadership’s vigorous support for the change.
Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) will no longer have the power to fine political parties that violate election laws concerning pre-election survey procedures, a decision that drew criticism from opposition parties, which predicts it will lead to an unfair campaign process for the country’s upcoming referendum.
The outcome of the April 16 referendum on constitutional changes will be determined by the undecided, as has been the case in previous elections, according to a prominent pollster.
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has just announced that the government’s referendum campaign will officially start on Feb.
