Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag has mentioned the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP) will submit a quick constitutional
modification proposal on the usage of the headband within the public and
personal sphere to the Parliament inside days, Trend studies citing
Daily
News.
“This proposal will probably be submitted to the Parliament. It is opened
for signatures of the parliamentarians. Our lawmakers will endorse
it by signing the proposal,” Minister Bozdag mentioned in a televised
interview on Dec. 5.
“No lady may be disadvantaged of utilizing her basic rights and
freedoms within the area of schooling, employment in addition to her proper
to elect and be elected due to carrying a headband according to
her non secular religion,” Bozdag acknowledged.
The second modification is to guard the household, the minister
mentioned, informing that the union of marriage is between a person and
lady in keeping with the brand new modifications.
“We had talks with different events over the modifications. I hope they
will assist our modifications. Who can oppose a proposal that underlines
that the union of marriage can happen between a person and lady?”
he mentioned.
Supported by the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the
amendments are anticipated to concern articles 24 and 41, on freedom
of faith and conscience and safety of the household and
youngsters’s rights, respectively. A change in Article 24 will
present new ensures to feminine public servants and personal sector
staff that they’ll’t be restricted by any form of gown code.
AKP officers say this modification will assure each coated and
uncovered feminine staff.
Bozdağ recalled that the AKP and the MHP wouldn’t have sufficient
seats to cross the constitutional amendments with out the assist of
different events. “We have 335 votes, however we’d like at the very least 360 [to
take the amendments to referendum]. We can not cross it from the
Parliament with out the assist of the IYI [Good] Party or the HDP,”
he acknowledged.
The Good Party and the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) haven’t
but formally replied to the AKP’s proposal, however they recalled the
proven fact that basic rights and freedoms can’t be taken to
referendum.
