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In Turkey, there are hopes that the new constitution will become a means of resolving many domestic issues.
Speaking on the importance of the new constitution was Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, who said that the new constitution might end all crises in the country, reports Anadolu Agency.
There should no longer be any Alevi-Sunni, Turkish-Kurdish, modern-fundamentalist conflicts from now on. We need to have a model, good and liberal constitution,” Arınç said in a televised interview Thursday.
One of the biggest threats to Turkey, he continued, is ethnic nationalism — thus, he did not want anything that would recall ethnical nationalism in the new constitution.
A committee set up to prepare Turkey’s new constitution will hold its first meeting on Oct. 19.
Turkey is currently using the 1982 constitution, which was ratified by popular referendum during the military junta of 1980-1983. Until then, Turkey was using a constitution adopted in 1961.