AKP President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeted the CHP’s law proposal, which provides legal assurance on headscarves and dress, at his party’s group meeting and said: ‘constitution’ had made the call.
“IF YOU ARE LIKE A MAN, LET’S SOLVE AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL LEVEL”
Saying that today there is no such thing as the headscarf in Turkey, and the main opposition party ‘politics of exploitation’ accusing Erdogan, who has been on his agenda for a long time, ‘constitutional change’ also ‘to the headscarf’ had tied.
Erdogan’s statements were as follows:
“Since he brought up this issue… If you are honest, if you are sincere, if this person is sincere in removing the headscarf issue, which is a fundamental human right, from the country’s agenda, let’s provide the solution at the constitutional level, not the law. If you are honest, if you are a man, come and do this. Let’s do the rest. The rest is the problem of the CHP and its leader. Let’s make additional changes that will strengthen our family institution.”
BEHIND THE SCENES FROM THE CLOSE TO POWER JOURNALIST
On the other hand, Hürriyet newspaper columnist Hande Fırat, who is known for her closeness to the government, “Behind the scenes of the constitutional studies on the headscarf” In his article titled, the AKP’s commission, which works on the constitution, ‘family’ He stated that he was in favor of not including the change in the definition in the newly prepared text.
why; “Responding to the CHP’s step purely and one step ahead” Firat, who explained “If President Erdogan says ‘Come in’, the definition of family will be included in the text” said.
Firat continued:
“Well, why was this needed? According to my sources, the Civil Code, which was written about 100 years ago, does not contain a definite phrase about same-sex marriage. The regulations left the issue open to interpretation. Therefore, they draw attention to the need for a definition of family. However, party officials point out that this regulation alone Still, President Erdogan has the final word.”
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