Parliamentary commission to continue work on nwe constitution

Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek ended his tour of visits to opposition party leaders seeking consensus on the new constitution with a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday in Ankara. Speaking to reporters following the meeting, Cicek said that the parliamentary Constitutional Reconciliation Commission has so far discussed 177 articles and the four parties have reached a consensus 48 of them, since the commission began working on a new constitution in October 2011. “In this regard, I am calling on the commission to convene for a meeting at 1:30 pm on Thursday. The commission needs to work more vigorously from now on in order not to crush the hopes of the nation about the new constitution. I think the commission should not go on summer recess,” Cicek said.