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WTF? Turkish government attempts to overthrow President

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yesterday. Russian interference?  https://exbulletin.com/politics/1489646/

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey pledged on Monday to restore parliamentary democracy and abandon the executive presidential system that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced three years ago. At a ceremony in Ankara, party leaders put their signatures to a 48-page statement confirming their determination to introduce a strengthened parliamentary system if they overthrow Erdogan in elections currently scheduled for June 2023.

Erdogan, who has served since 2003 first as prime minister and as president since 2014, inaugurated a presidential system in 2018 that abolished the post of prime minister and concentrated most power in the hands of the president. . The president’s office had been a largely ceremonial position until then.The opposition has blamed Turkey’s woes, including an economic downturn and an erosion of rights and freedoms, on Erdogan’s system which they say amounts to one man. The presidential system was narrowly approved in a referendum in 2017 and was installed after the 2018 elections. The new system envisioned by the six opposition parties would revive the prime minister’s office and return largely token powers to presidents, party officials said at the ceremony. It provides for greater separation of powers, including an increased legislative and oversight role for parliament, and an independent judiciary. It also promises transparency and greater rights and freedoms, including women’s rights.

 

 

 

 

 

The statement was signed by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party; Meral Aksener of the nationalist Good Party; Temel Karamollaoglu of the conservative Felicity party; Gultekin Uysal of the Democratic Party; Ali Babacan Democracy and Progress Parties; and future parties Ahmet Davutoglu.

Davutoglu and Babacan were co-founders of Erdogan’s ruling party and held leadership positions before breaking away from the movement to criticize Erdogan’s policies.

 

 

Turkey’s second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, was excluded from the statement. The government accuses the party of links with outlaw Kurdish activists and many of its members, including its former leaders, have been imprisoned. Erdogan has in the past accused the Republican People’s Party of siding with terrorists.

 

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2/ https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Turkish-opposition-vows-return-to-parliamentary-16952931.php