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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Turk PM wants new constitution by first half 2012

Turk PM wants new constitution by first half 2012
(Reuters)

29 September 2011
ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday his government aimed to draft a new constitution by the first half of 2012 and he would seek cross-party consensus to do so.

There is broad political agreement in the European Union candidate country on the need to update the constitution, which was written under military tutelage after a 1980 coup, but past attempts to reform it have been plagued by political bickering.

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