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[NEWS] Turkey votes to suspend democracy, enact dictatorship
Jairo:
--- Quote from: sources ---http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39617700
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-referendum-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-supreme-power-latest-count-a7686511.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/apr/16/turkey-referendum-recep-tayyip-erdogan-votes-presidential-powers
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/europe/turkey-referendum-results-erdogan/
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a few months ago I made >>this news thread<< about a bill that was submitted to the turkish parliament to expand the president's powers from symbolic to executor while simultaneously limiting the powers of parliament -- a dictatorial power-grab, simply put.
today, that vote's passed with a 51.4% YES backing -- many in the country call this result into question, however, as blank and incorrectly filled out referendum votes were still stamped YES. nevertheless, erdogan has seized the initiative to further turn the parliamentary-democracy that is turkey into a presidential dictatorship.
with this bill, the position of prime minister is abolished, the powers of parliament are restricted and ceded to the president, the president is able to enact law, and various government positions like supreme court judges are subject to erdogan's appointment.
Punished Toxicology:
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turkey is such a stuffhole...
Mr Queeba:
I think we know why the coup should have succeeded... actually either way it probably would still devolve to a dictatorship
Master Matthew²:
--- Quote from: Mr Queeba on April 16, 2017, 08:19:41 PM ---I think we know why the coup should have succeeded...
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The coup was done to get to this point.
All politics, all manipulation.
We saw proof of this when the supposed Coup fired at buildings vital to the democratic structure of turkey.