AKP

Parliament late on Feb. 3 sent the draft charter amendment to the president's office for approval, with a referendum on introducing major political system changes to Turkey likely to take place on April 16. 

A jailed co-chair of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said the arrests of the party's lawmakers were planned by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) "hour by hour around a table."

Turkish lawmakers came to blows in a brawl in parliament overnight, as tempers boiled over in a debate on an 18-article constitutional amendment package to shift the current parliamentary system to an executive presidency.

Turkish lawmakers came to blows in a brawl in parliament overnight, as tempers boiled over in a debate on an 18-article constitutional amendment package to shift the current parliamentary system to an executive presidency.

According to Wikipedia: "In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topi

Representatives of the ruling and opposition parties met on Dec. 26 to ease tension sparked during the constitutional commission's work on a charter amendment package that also witnessed a brawl between their lawmakers.  

"The sociologist part of me is still looking for the answer to this question," daily Hürriyet writer Ertuğrul Özkök wrote in an article published on Nov. 21, 2015, three weeks after the Nov. 1 general elections.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıdlrım and opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli are expected to meet on Dec. 1 to discuss a new constitution that is being drafted with contributions from the latter. 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has ordered his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to talk to the opposition parties regarding the controversial sexual abuse draft, which is postponed in parliament to Nov. 22.

The prime minister's remarks came almost one hour after Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ spoke to the press to justify the draft.

It was on Oct. 11, when the head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli revived a long-standing discussion on the introduction of the presidential system and signaled his party's support to a charter amendment to be drafted by the Justice and Development Party (AKP).