{"id":43765,"date":"2010-08-09T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/09\/turkeys-pm-rallies-for-yes-vote-in-constitution-referendum\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:01:00","slug":"turkeys-pm-rallies-for-yes-vote-in-constitution-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/09\/turkeys-pm-rallies-for-yes-vote-in-constitution-referendum.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s PM Rallies for &#8216;Yes&#8217; Vote in Constitution Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; font: normal normal normal 18.3px\/normal Verdana\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 14px\">Turkish premier has called for support to a package of constitutional amendments which is set to be put on referendum later this year, reports WorldBulletin.net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">\n<br \/>\n&#8220;Will you stand up for a constitution that is the work of a military coup or will you stand up for a constitution which is the work of the people? Will you say &#8216;yes&#8217; to the law of the privileged or will you say &#8216;yes&#8217; to the supremacy of law,&#8221; Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a rally meeting on Sunday in the western province of Afyonkarahisar. <\/p>\n<p>Turkey is set vote for the referendum on the government-backed constitutional reform package scheduled for September 12, the 30th anniversary of a military coup which eventually led the way for the country&#8217;s current constitution. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling Justice &amp; Development (AK) Party argues that the reform package aims at making Turkey more democratic and in line with EU standards. <\/p>\n<p>The package abolishes provisional article 15 of the constitution which does not allow trial of the members of the National Security Council formed after the military coup in 1980. <\/p>\n<p>It also scraps off the ban on right to general strike; and allows one to become a member to more than one workers&#8217; union, and gives civil servants and other public officials the right to collective bargaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish premier has called for support to a package of constitutional&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13721,13722,10427,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}