Become the father of the Turks. Why Erdogan started a referendum to change the existing system

Türkiye voted for turning into a presidential republic. What does it mean?

Erdogan's election campaign. Photo: umit bektas / reuters

On Sunday, 51.35% of Turkey citizens supported amendments to the Constitution proposed by President Recep Erdogan. Only the largest cities voted against - Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Amendments turn the current parliamentary republic into a super -presidential one. The head of state, instead of the prime minister chosen from deputies of the parliament, will become a popularly elected president. The legislative body will be very limited in its rights, and the army is entirely subordinate to the Ministry of Defense.

Erdogan de facto is already governing the country without any special powers, after his election by the president in August 2014, now, according to the plan, laws should come into line with reality. This is perhaps the largest political reform after the establishment of the (parliamentary) Turkish Republic in 1923. Only the introduction of a multi -party system after the Second World War or a military coup and the adoption of a new Constitution of 1980-1982 can be compared with it.

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