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Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced today that he has appointed ten lawyers to draft their proposals for Turkey's new Constitution.
On the occasion of today's 65th anniversary of the 1960 military coup, which led to the hanging of then-Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Interior, the Turkish president declared, speaking before the heads of the AKP party's provincial committees, that "as of yesterday, I have appointed ten of my legal friends. They are starting work now. God willing, we will continue with the work on the new Constitution."
In addition to the 65th anniversary of the 1960 coup, this year also marks the 40th anniversary of General Kenan Evren's military coup in 1980.
Although Erdogan's government has made several changes since 2002, mainly changing the spirit of the military that drafted the current Constitution at the time, Erdogan insists that it bears the stamp of the generals who plotted the coup and argues that the country must have a new Constitution that will form the basis on which the "century of Turkey" that he himself proclaims will be built.
Critics of President Erdogan accuse him of trying to change the secular and national character of the regime and that the constitutional revision is merely a pretext to enable him to run for president again in 2028.
"The 1982 Constitution, which has been largely freed from its structural elements with the revisions that have been made, still carries the remnants of the coup period. The new Constitution will allow us to get rid of these remnants and get rid of the grave they have prepared for us," argued Recep Tayyip Erdogan, emphasizing that "we will definitely free the nation from the shame of the Constitution of the coup plotters."
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