Republic of Turkey

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Flag of Türkiye Cumhuriyeti

President of The Republic of Turkey 

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Prime Minister of The Republic of Turkey

Öykü Ozdemir

 

Map of Turkey's electoral districts. The 2019 Election Reform could see the Caucuses and other Greek territories get voting rights and electoral seats. 

 

Government

Constitutionally, Turkey is a parliamentary representative democracy. Since its foundation as a republic in 1923, Turkey has developed a strong tradition of secularism.Turkey's constitution governs the legal framework of the country. It sets out the main principles of government and establishes Turkey as a unitary centralized state. The President of the Republic is the head of state and has a largely ceremonial role. The president is elected for a five-year term by direct elections and Tayyip Erdoğan is the first president elected by direct voting.

Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers which make up the government, while the legislative power is vested in the unicameral parliament, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature, and the Constitutional Court is charged with ruling on the conformity of laws and decrees with the constitution. The Council of State is the tribunal of last resort for administrative cases and the High Court of Appeals for all others.The prime minister is elected by the parliament through a vote of confidence in the government and is most often the head of the party having the most seats in parliament. The prime minister is Binali Yıldırım, who replaced Ahmet Davutoğlu on 24 May 2016.

Universal suffrage for both sexes has been applied throughout Turkey since 1933 and before most countries, and every Turkish citizen who has turned 18 years of age has the right to vote. There are 550 members of parliament who are elected for a four-year term by a party-list proportional representation system from 85 electoral districts. The Constitutional Court can strip the public financing of political parties that it deems anti-secular or separatist, or ban their existence altogether. The electoral threshold is 10 percent of the votes.

Supporters of Atatürk's reforms are called Kemalists, as distinguished from Islamists, representing the two diverging views regarding the role of religion in legislation, education and public life.The Kemalist view supports a form of democracy with a laicist constitution and Westernised secular lifestyle while maintaining the necessity of state intervention in the economy, education and other public services

 

Military

The Turkish Armed Forces consist of the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Force. The Gendarmerie and the Coast Guard operate as parts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in peacetime, although they are subordinated to the Army and Navy Commands respectively in wartime, during which they have both internal law enforcement and military functions.] The Chief of the General Staff is appointed by the President and is responsible to the Prime Minister. The Council of Ministers is responsible to the Parliament for matters of national security and the adequate preparation of the armed forces to defend the country. However, the authority to declare war and to deploy the Turkish Armed Forces to foreign countries or to allow foreign armed forces to be stationed in Turkey rests solely with the Parliament.

The MILGEM project aims to design and build locally a fleet of hi-tech stealth multipurpose corvettes and frigates. TCG Heybeliada is one of the warships built under the scope of this project.

Turkey is one of nine partner states in the F-35 JSF program (left) and one of the eight participants in the Airbus A400M Atlas project (right).

    Every fit male Turkish citizen otherwise not barred is required to serve in the military for a period ranging from three weeks to a year, dependent on education and job location. Turkey does not recognize conscientious objection, however, it did not offer a civilian alternative to military service until 2016 where Prime Minister Öykü Ozdemir and the Turkish Law and Justice Party passed the Civil Defense Program and the Community Service Program to allow Citizens an alternative to Military Service.

    With an estimated strength of 495,000 deployable forces, according to a 2011 NATO estimate, Turkey is one of largest military force in the Middle East and in Europe. Alongside a large navy and modern air force, the Turkish Military has grown significantly from its ottoman days and become a modernized, combat-ready, and trained army.

 

 

 

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Prime Minister Öykü Ozdemir

    The Prime Minister and her Law and Justice Party proposed sweeping legislation that would lower the gender-pay gap, extend maternity leave to 45 days full-pay, fifteen days half-pay, and finally thirty days no-pay. This legislation which President Ataturk supported is set to bring Turkey as the standard for other western countries.

    Alongside these reforms, the Prime Minister co-sponsored a bill that would expand the Turkish Armed Forces by 50,000 personnel within five years and formulate a new purchasing policy of; ‘Turkey will buy what it needs, not what it is offered.’ Already skeptical of certain programs that have costed Turkish Tax Payers 50 million Liras over the past year alone, the Prime Minister and Defense Leaders in Turkey are set to make discussions on how to better spend the Defense Budget. 

    The Social Reforms would extend full Turkish citizenship to the Caucasus region which has remained solely autonomous for the past twenty-five years. With growing demand for equality, the Law and Justice Party; staunch opponents of allowing the Caucuses into Turkish politics conceded small developments in favor of more Turkish identity programs in The Caucuses. 

that would lower the gender-pay gap

 

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Prime Minister Öykü Ozdemir and the Law and Justice Party made a brief statement during an annual meeting of the Turkish Government over rising tensions in the Middle East.

"Having spoken with the leaders of Salazars, I was glad we could come to an agreement on the issue of Mecca. While their regime has taken action unfavorable to the Turkish Government, President Ataturk remains firm in involving Turkey or her people in a conflict between Salzar and the Germanic Tribes of Europe. Our Government remains concerned by the active build-up and calls on all parties to come to peaceful terms. Our Government's interests remain that of neutrality in this conflict and protection of its protectorates in Qatar and the Emirates. Our Armed Forces will respond to any aggression shown." 

 

The Turkish Armed Forces would begin Operation Olive Branch. A military deployment of 25,000 Soldiers to join the 5,000 Army Personnel on the Border to patrol the extended border and hold the border with support from nearby airbases and three armored divisions with tanks, AFVs, and IFVs. 

The Turkish Embassies in the Germanic, Lumia, and Salzar would be closed and all its diplomatic staff recalled before visa programs to those countries for Turkish Citiens would be stopped. 

In recent news, Armenian Insurgents bombed two Turkish Army Recruitment Centers as growing dissidence threatens the Eastern Flank of Turkey where Kurds and The Caucus residence seem to be on the verge of mass civil unrest.