AKP working on new constitution, says Erdoğan

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President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that his party is working on a new constitution and a fourth judicial reform package.

"We will present our preparations to all political parties and will share it with NGOs and our nation. We'll have our civil constitution" he said at the opening ceremony for an interchange road in İstanbul.

"Meanwhile, we are going to submit the fourth of our judicial reform packages to the consideration of our parliament," he said.

Over the past few months, the president has been saying that the country should draft a new constitution. Earlier in the month, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the ally of the AKP, announced that it had completed a 100-article draft constitution.

"Despite the economic attacks that started with the [2013] Gezi incidents and threatened us in 2018, we didn't compromise on our policies of service," Erdoğan further said.

"We will put Turkey among the leading countries of the global system that will be restructured after the pandemic. This picture disturbs some people inside and outside.

"Those who confined our country in a vicious circle with coups, terrorist organizations never liked our objective of an independent and prosperous country." (AS/VK)