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Recently there was talks about lowering the election treshhold which very much confuses me. It will allow HPD to get in the Parliament.

Parliament will has no effect on Turkish Government if referandum passes, elected President will decide the government instead of voting in the parliament. If one political party leader wouldnt run for presidency (Government), why would people support him/her? :D and with new system, one person cannot be president canditate and parliament member canditate at the same time.

This means; if one political party leader runs for presidency and lose, he will be nobody. He will not be mp, he will not be government member, but just regular citizen like you and me :P his political life will be ended.

If one political party doesnt run for presidency and let his rival win, his party will become unpopular since what is the purpose of their existance lol
 
Parliament will has no effect on Turkish Government if referandum passes, elected President will decide the government instead of voting in the parliament.

Current constituonal proposal include increasing MP total from 550 to 600. Why do they need this much MPs since they will be ineffective? Also their expenses would be an economic burden.
 
Current constituonal proposal include increasing MP total from 550 to 600. Why do they need this much MPs since they will be ineffective?

First, i didn't say that parliament will be ineffective. They will be effective (actually they will be only source) for legislation power. I said that they will have no effect on Government since President will decide the government with new system, without any voting in the parliament.

Secondly, they don't need that much MP. Even 400 is enough for me. Increasing this number to 600 is just a message to the AKP MPs, like "dont worry, your chairs will be safe" for guaranteeing referandum to pass in the Parliament. Nothing more.
 
Recently there was talks about lowering the election treshhold which very much confuses me. It will allow HPD to get in the Parliament. Is MHP at risk? Is that why are thinking about lowering it?

I hope they will lower the threshold...but I think this is only talk like the death penalty coming back.
Lowering the threeshold can give more assurance to HDP true...but it can too give more assurance to Turkey too
I'm sick of AKP,CHP,MHP....I want a new party in Turkey which can manage to enter in the parlement.

But I think this only talk, if they wanted to do it they shoud add it in the new referundum constituion.

allowed pesmerge to go through Turkey and help ypg=pkk

True but Turkey did it because the whole world accused it to support Daech against the poor Kurds encircle by Daech.
Frankly without Euphare shild operation the whole world would continue this false propaganda about Turkey=Daech.

I know that many would say : Turkey should not care about what the world think about him, but this is important. If the west at bad image about Turkey, they sanction it like weapons restriction some countries already did it.
 
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Police detain 1,120 in operation on Gülen’s ‘secret imams’
ANKARA

Some 1,120 people suspected of links to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) were detained in simultaneous raids across Turkey on April 26, in an operation mainly targeting the structure of the organization within the police forces.

A total of 8,500 police officers took part in the Ankara-based operations carried out jointly by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), targeting government-dubbed “secret imams” within the police.

State-run Anadolu Agency said 4,672 suspects were sought – of whom 1,448 are already in jail – meaning that a total of 3,224 arrest warrants were issued.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu confirmed that more than 1,000 “secret imams” have been detained.
“This is an important step for the Republic of Turkey,” Soylu said, indicating that the numbers detained were set to rise and the raids were continuing.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had earlier said detention warrants had been issued for 1,000 people in all 81 provinces with suspected links to Fethullah Gülen, the top suspect behind the failed coup on July 16, 2016.

In Istanbul, detention warrants for 390 suspects were issued and police detained 172 of them. The operation to apprehend the other 218 suspects is ongoing with the participation of around 2,000 police officers.

Another 158 were detained in Ankara.

At least 76 people were detained so far in the western province of İzmir, while in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, 20 of the 119 people for whom detention warrants were issued were also apprehended.

Police seized 1 U.S. dollar banknotes in searches in houses of 17 suspects in the eastern province of Malatya.

Particular banknotes with “F” or “T” series codes on them are alleged to be a tool of communication between members of Fethullah Gülen’s network, according to police.

Some 35 people in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakır, Mardin, Batman and Bingöl and Elazığ in the east were detained as well, Anadolu said.

About 47,000 people have already been arrested in Turkey under a nine-month state of emergency in place since the failed coup bid.

Just before the April 16 constitutional referendum, the Turkish parliament extended the state of emergency by another three months to July 19.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım had hinted in a television interview this month that a new anti-Gülen move was in the pipeline.

“The network of its relationships has not been solved so far,” he said, adding that new evidence would provide the government with the opportunity in the fight against Gülenists.

“Things will take a different course. The details will be clear in the coming days,” Yıldırım said.
April/26/2017

[h/t: Eye on the World:
Thousands of Police arrested in Turkish Night of the Long Knives part 2] (The "Night of the Long Knives" was the series of purges - extralegal executions - carried out June 30 - July 2, 1934, by the Nazi regime to eliminate Germany's democratic political opposition and institutions, thus consolidating the Nazis' hold on power.)
 
More should be done to support our Gagauz bros in Moldova. They may be Christian but are Turkic as well and have a positive view about Turkey... I had a friend in my university from Çadır who was from a mixed Gagauz, Russian and Besarab Bulgarian descend but he knew some Gagauz Turkish (mostly insults :D ). He said that Turkey is helping Gagauzia a lot and that a lot of young people are studying in Turkish schools and even studying in Turkey itself and that a lot of Turkish companies are investing there.

Turkey should invest more time and resources in the former Ottoman lands where still a lot of Turkic people and Muslims live... People who love and respect Turkey even if they are not living under a Turkish rule for more than a century.
 
More should be done to support our Gagauz bros in Moldova. They may be Christian but are Turkic as well and have a positive view about Turkey... I had a friend in my university from Çadır who was from a mixed Gagauz, Russian and Besarab Bulgarian descend but he knew some Gagauz Turkish (mostly insults :D ). He said that Turkey is helping Gagauzia a lot and that a lot of young people are studying in Turkish schools and even studying in Turkey itself and that a lot of Turkish companies are investing there.

Turkey should invest more time and resources in the former Ottoman lands where still a lot of Turkic people and Muslims live... People who love and respect Turkey even if they are not living under a Turkish rule for more than a century.
They are pro Russian more than they are pro Turkey.Much more. ..
 
They are pro Russian more than they are pro Turkey.Much more. ..


Being pro-Russia (or to be more precise living in a USSR nostalgia fed by the local commie elite which is still holding the power in the country like in a lot of other ex-Warsaw pact states- Bulgaria included) doesn't mean that they can't have positive feelings towards Turks too especially when Turkey is helping them to improve their lives and when ties and cooperation are getting stronger. Of course I am not talking about them wanting to be a part of Turkey or separating from Moldova etc. I'm talking about closer cooperation and friendship between relatives we should build together that can bring positives to all.
As a Bulgarian Turk from Northeast Bulgaria/ Deliorman area I can say that I like Gagauz people and I find them as our brothers... If we put religion aside they are pretty similar to us culturally and genetically. Historically those areas of Bulgaria + Northern Dobrogea in Romania and Bessarabia are places where Turks, Tatars, Gagauz people have been living together for centuries so maybe it is normal for me have positive views towards them but whatever...

I am not really a Moldova expert though but I guess you have a better knowledge about it as the majority of the people there are Romanians and Moldova has a special place in your hearts, right? So what is happening in there right now? Is there a possibility for Moldova and Romania to unite anytime soon or Russians are doing whatever they can for that not to happen?
 

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