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Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has spoken of the Constitutional amendment and presidential system at the Justice and Development Party (AKP) provincial directors meeting.
Yıldırım spoke as follows:
“Whatever the constitution tells”
“Whatever the constitution tells, de facto responsibility of the president has risen. The Constitution is coup constitution. This is the most important duty of the AKP.
“We have to change the constitution which doesn’t function for Turkey that keeps growing”.
"As my brother, our leader says..."
“In fact, everyone wants that. No one says ‘don’t amend the Constitution’. Why doesn’t it amend? What they think is ‘If the AKP does that, it will benefit from it’. As my brother, our leader said, let us lose if our nation will win.
“We will definitely bring this amendment proposal to the parliamentary agenda. Then, the decision is up to the parliament. This parliament will pull this weight. Let’s suppose that it didn’t work out. Then the nation will decide. The cure is nation, the ballot box where there is political deadlock”.
“Our fight will continue against PKK”
They don’t have a Kurdish question on their agenda, may this nation know this. We will save our nation from this trouble. They are doing all sorts of damage at the moment.
“This struggle will pertinaciously continue until the terrorist organization [PKK] leaves the country with or without their arms, or bury their arms”.
Genocide voting in Germany
PM Yıldırım said the following as to the Armenian Genocide bill to be voted today (May 2) in Germany.
“There is a challenging process ahead of us. There is going to be a voting in Germany today. They are trying to hold us accountable for the 1915 incidents as they see it.
“I told [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel that ‘Germany is Turkey’s ally. We wish Germany won’t conduce to such unintelligible work’. She said to me that ‘I will do my best, but this is parliament’. And I replied that ‘It can’t happen despite your presence’. We will see today”. (AS/TK)
