The principle of secularism will be in Turkey's new constitution, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday, after the speaker of parliament sparked a public uproar by calling for a religious constitution.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends a news conference after
visiting Nizip refugee camp near Gaziantep, Turkey , April 23, 2016.
REUTERS/Umit Bektas
ANKARA: The principle of secularism will be in Turkey's new
constitution, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday, after
the speaker of parliament sparked a public uproar by calling for a
religious constitution.
Davutoglu made the statement in a speech to his ruling AK
Party in parliament. Speaker Ismail Kahraman said this week that
overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey needed a religious constitution, a proposal
that contradicts the modern republic's founding principles.
Kahraman later said his comments were "personal views" and that the new charter should guarantee religious freedoms.(Reporting by Ercan Gurses and Daren Butler; Writing by David Dolan; editing by John Stonestreet)
- Reuters
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