The speaker of the Turkish Parliament stated that a Muslim country must live according to religious Constitution.
The speaker of the Turkish Parliament and a member of the ruling justice and development Ismail Kahraman encouraged to replace the existing in the country a secular Constitution on religious.
“We are a Muslim country. Accordingly, we must have a religious Constitution,” said Kahraman at a press conference in Istanbul.
Representatives of the ruling party have repeatedly proposed to replace the current Basic law, adopted in November 1982, which has no religious position.
The leader of the opposition Republican people’s party of Turkey Kemal Kilicdaroglu has criticized the proposal of Kahraman.
“The chaos that reigns in the middle East, was the result of the thinking of those who, like you, makes the religion element of the policy,” kılıçdaroğlu wrote in “Twitter”.
The opposition also fears that the new Constitution could give too much power to the President of the country Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who advocates the expansion of presidential powers.
Over the past two years, the authorities lifted the ban on women wearing headscarves in schools and the civil service, restricted the sale of alcohol and have taken steps to separate campuses for male and female.
