Constitutional Court

Georgi Petkanov, former Bulgarian Interior Minister and Justice Minister, has died at the age of 67.

The news of his death was announced by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who expressed his condolences on Facebook.

Constitutional Court head Zühtü Arslan focused on very important legal issues in a speech delivered the other day. What I regard as his most important sentence of that speech is: "As dangerous as an executive body which knows no boundaries, so is the 'juristocratic' state of the judiciary."

Only three hours before getting into an exchange of words with new Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc?, elected only a day before with a clear 60 percent support, Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an was at a ceremony at the Constitutional Court.

Turkey?s top judge has urged political leaders to protect the principle of separation of powers and to be careful of letting these powers go beyond their limits, in an indirect reference to the government?s efforts to renew the constitution and adopt a presidential system which would grant more authority to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

The president of Turkey?s Constitutional Court has made it clear they can cope with the massive number of individual applications filed to the Court and indicated there was no need for a systemic review of the current mechanism, as the government has suggested.

Senate President Calin Popescu Tariceanu on Tuesday said that Parliament "starts to share sovereignty regarding its law-making mission" with the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR).

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Turkey?s Constitutional Court has upheld a law that stipulates a prison sentence for those who store ?oral, anal, group, gay or lesbian? porn on the grounds that they are ?unnatural,? Turkish media reported on April 20.

The joint Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate for the review of the Constitution reunites on Tuesday in session, as of 13:00 hours, at the Upper House's headquarters.

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Several thousand people gathered in Pristina on Saturday at an anti-government protest organised by three main Kosovo opposition parties - Vetevendosje Movement, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK, and the Initiative for Kosovo, NISMA.

Kosovo opposition parties announced a protest in Pristina on Saturday against what they call the "hijacking of the government" by the ruling parties, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).

They called on all "unsatisfied citizens, farmers, students and all of those who are unemployed" to join them.