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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denied that he was trying to change the constitution so he could remain if his term expires three years later.
Erdogan has ruled Turkey for 22 years, first as the Prime Minister since 2003, and later as the president’s elected since 2014. But it cannot start again unless the rules are changed or it will call early elections.
“We want the new constitution not to ourselves, but for our country. I have no interest in re-election or struggle for the post,” he told reporters on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Erdogan’s recent remarks and actions have assumed that he wants to remain president after the term of 2028.
In January last year, he was asked by the singer if he was running for another term, and he said, “I am if you are.” The next day, his party’s press confirmed that the issue was on their agenda: “It is important that our nation wants it.”
While many Turks will strive for Erdogan to continue the presidency, he retreats in the Istanbul Opposition Surveys, Imomoglu Screens, which was arrested in March and remain in prison.
Imomoglu’s arrest on alleged corruption allegations, which he denied, was widely regarded as his supporters as politically motivated and caused some of the biggest protests that Turkey watched for more than ten years.
Polls indicate that the mayor’s support has risen since he was detained in Silira, west of Istanbul.
Authorities have succeeded in blocking their feed in the social media in Turkey, and they continue to focus on its administration in the city, detaining at least 18 employees on suspicion of corruption in recent days, including Cetin Chief Taner for Public Relations.
Despite the fact that Imomoglu’s detention in prison is widely criticized at the international level, President Erdogan has greatly escaped the competition, and Western allies regarded it as a key NATO ally.
In his comments to journalists on Wednesday, Erdogan said that the Constitution of Turkey did not reflect the views on civilians, as it was mainly written as a result of the 1980 military coup, although it has been amended.
“In such a rapidly changing world, is it possible to get to the constitution, which was written in a coup?” he asked.
The current constitution allows only two five -year presidential conditions. Erdogan is on the third one, but he claimed that his original term had happened before Turkey moved from parliamentary government to the president’s rules.
This change required a constitutional referendum in 2017, which gave Erdogan a strong powers, but still allows only two presidential conditions.
In order to receive another referendum, it needs support for 360 MPs in the 600 -place parliament, but can now only count on 321. From 400 votes it can immediately change the Constitution.
His recent step to end more than four decades of the conflict with the Kurdish militant PCC was interpreted by some as an application for raising Kurdish support for the new Constitution.
On Wednesday, Erdogan stated that his hands put his hands on the Pra-Kurdian Party Dem to continue the “much more strong policy”.
The DEM party has 56 MPs, and with support, Erdogan will have a much greater chance in parliament to change the Constitution.
The deputy chairman of the opposition CHP Party Ekrem Imamoglu Ali Mahir Basarir said that Erdogan had no chance of launching again from the Constitution he developed. Erdogan may also call early elections, but he also did not allow it, Basarir said.
