A female deputy from the ruling party was particularly industrious in parliamentary debates on constitutional change…

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Gökcen Özdogan Enç, Antalya MEP from AKP. 

Amid Fistfights, Turkey Nears Parliamentary Approval of a New Constitution

 NYT > Turkey by By ROD NORDLAND

 

The proposal, bitterly disputed by opposition parties, would greatly expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if approved in a referendum.

[VIDEO] Female opposition deputies hospitalized after a brawl in Turkish Parliament https://t.co/7VwtKzQZtq http://pic.twitter.com/nFhygrCoM4

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CHP’s Pavey, HDP’s Buldan Beaten in Parliament, Taken to Hospital

Bianet :: English

 

Following “intervention” of AKP’s women MPs into Nazlıaka’s protest on rostrum, CHP’s Pavez’s prosthesis has been dislocated, HDP’s Buldan taken to hospital and AKP’s Enç, who kicked Buldan in the chest, came to parliament with a neck brace.

Meanwhile, a CHP deputy in good relations with the Minister of Justice.

Turkey’s parliament set to approve sweeping new powers for president

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul

 

MPs pass elements of controversial bill that grants broad powers to country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Democracy in Turkey is now under threat | Letters

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Letters

 

Owen Jones accurately describes the circumstances in Turkey (What I saw in Turkey is an assault on democracy itself, 18 January). However, the development of challenges to democratic principles in Turkey predates Trump. These have intensified since the AKP government lost its parliamentary majority in the June 2015 general election. The most valuable part of any democratic governance, namely public contestation of political authority through free speech, right to public demonstrations, freedom of expression and press, have gradually eroded under various government measures initiated under the claims to security. These have accelerated since the attempted coup in July 2016. A series of legal cases against public intellectuals, academics and journalists has severely curtailed practice of these freedoms. Continued charges against these people and their imprisonment are leading to self-censorship.

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