Turkey Moving Close to Civil War

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Turkish opposition leader of the social democratic CHP, has sharply criticized the push by the Turkish government to remodel Turkey into a presidential system. The CHP chief expressed concern about the future of the country. He warned that the rising discontent may lead to a civil war. ‘What a presidential system that supposed to be, where one talks and Turkey is condemned to silence. The judge will then create according to his ideas deputies lists, from which emerges the legislature. Such a presidential system can not be implemented without the blood flows,’Kilicdaroglu warned.

This post was published at Armstrong Economics on May 15, 2016.