Turkey's ruling party completes proposal on presidency: PM

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has finalized preparations for a draft of a constitutional amendment, which will change the country's parliamentary system to an executive presidency, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Oct. 23. 
"We have finalized our work on both the new constitution and on the presidential [system]. We have made sufficient discussions both in parliament and by the public. We'll bring our proposal to parliament as soon as possible," Yıldırım said addressing the deputies in his closing speech at the AKP camp. 

The government will go to a popular referendum on whether the parliament should adopt new charter draft with 367 votes or agrees to go for public opinion on 330 votes, he said. 

So that Turkey will end "system debate and use its energy for its future," Yıldırım said. 

Members of the AKP met in the western province of Afyon last weekend, with focusing mostly on work related to the proposed executive presidency. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long sought a presidency that has greater executive power. 

Turkey's presidential term will be five years in a new planned constitution, Yıldırım said during a televised interview on Oct. 22.

He praised the leader of Turkey's opposition the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli for his support of a referendum on a proposed presidential system.        

"Mr. Devlet Bahçeli sometimes makes this kind of breakthrough. This breakthrough opens every time the doors for the solution of a country's issues become an insolvable issue." Yıldırım said.   

The prime minister also commented on the parliamentary election in the new constitution, saying deputies could also be elected to five-year terms.  "We have not gone into...