Mustafa Şentop

An opposition leader and a senior ruling party figure have said early elections will be required as a last resort if charter changes currently being debated in parliament are not passed by the legislature.

Christmas celebrations at the Istanbul High School, a German-language high school established over 100 years ago, have allegedly been cancelled, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Dpa) reported on Dec. 18. 

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will submit to parliament within two weeks a draft constitution reform law that will expand presidential powers, the head of the assembly's constitutional commission said on Nov. 28. 

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is working on a system that will impose a single parliament, a presidential system and a two-stage election system on the country, the party's constitution commission head, Mustafa Şentop, has said.