Policy of Turkey

the institutions of Turkey are the following ones:

Institutions of Turkey

General information and form of the State

Turkey is a République Parlementaire.

Turkey has as an official language the Turkish . The 8 to 13,5 Kurdish million (according to the sources) form 12% to 20% of the Turkish population. The State does not recognize ethnic, religious division or linguistics of its population.

Turkey is a laic state whose majority of the population is of Moslem confession. It was also a precursor compared to much country by giving very early the right to vote with the women in 1934 and, for example by prohibiting the port of the veil in the public places.

Executive power

The President is the Head of the State and the Prime Minister is the chief of the government. The president is elected by the direct suffrage for a 5 years mandate to the maximum for 2 times. The president chooses the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister must also be appointed. The Turkish law also stipulates that in times of electoral campaign, the government must be modified. Independent personalities, which do not belong to any political party, must take during the countryside certain ministries, of which the ministry for the Interior, justice and transport. The other ministers must be selected among the parliamentary groups according to the importance of those. Current the government is in functions since the March 14th 2003.

The Safety advice main road (MGK), which is chaired by the president of the republic and generals who order the various Turkish armed forces, the Head of State major, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Interior Department, the Foreign Minister, the Minister for justice and the Deputy Prime Ministers. It is by this institution that the Turkish Armée proclamation its wills on the interior questions (on the Kurds or the Armenian genocide or on the Laïcité) or on external questions (Cyprus, the Kurdistan Iraq IEN, embargo on the Arménie)…

Legislative power

The Legislative power is exerted by an assembly made up of 550 renewed seats every 4 years.

The necessary age to be appointed is 25 years, the candidate must in addition at least have an educational level of primary school education. As from the year 1995, constitutional amendments lower the electoral majority to 18 years and the number of deputies increased, passing to 550. To be represented with the large Parliament it is necessary that a party introduces a candidate in at least half of the provinces of Turkey, and the party must in addition obtain at least 10% of the votes on the whole of Turkey.

Turkey and Europe

Turkey is currently candidate with adhesion with the European Union; the conditions are under discussion in particular the occupation of part of the island of Cyprus and the application of the standards for the minorities whose most is the Kurdish minority. In the event of adhesion with the European Union, Turkey would become probably the country more populated Union.

See also: Relations between Turkey and the European Union.

Lists of the presidents of Turkey

Prime Ministers of Turkey

See the detailed article Prime Ministers for the Turkish republic

See too

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