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Turkey's ruling party is passing constitutional reforms to consolidate power:
Turkey's parliament approved the first seven articles in a second round of voting overnight on a constitutional bill that will extend President Tayyip Erdogan's powers, keeping the reform on course for a spring referendum.
The two largest opposition parties in parliament say the 18-article bill, which could enable Erdogan to rule until 2029, will fuel authoritarianism in the NATO member and European Union candidate country. The ruling AK Party, backed by the nationalist MHP, says it will bring the strong executive leadership needed to prevent a return to the fragile coalition governments of the past.
The seven articles approved overnight include increasing the number of MPs to 600 from 550, lowering the minimum age to be a lawmaker to 18 from 25, and holding parliamentary and presidential elections together every five years.
Also at CNN, Time, Al Jazeera, and The Guardian. You might also be interested in this take from the Daily Sabah.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @06:43PM
The guy in the other article who wants to archive all human knowledge has the right idea. This era in history is coming to a close. 1,500 years from now people will look at the ruins of the financial/commercial centers of cities like New York, London, Chicago, etc and wonder. The Temple of Golman'zaks, The Krys-Ur Ziggurat, the Seers' Tower, and don't forget to visit the temple to the time god Bhen.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday January 19 2017, @07:50PM
I'm rather skeptical of this prediction. It requires humans to not go extinct, which I think is a little farfetched.
A better prediction is that, a few hundred thousand years from now, some new civilization will arise, comprised of intelligent beings who evolved from some other species (dolphins that moved to land? some kind of reptile? birds?), and they'll discover and dig up the ruins of those cities and wonder about the "hoomans" who used to live there.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:55PM
and don't forget to visit the temple to the time god Bhen.
I got the rest of your linguistic drifts, but who's this guy Ben? Bane?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @10:03PM
I was kind of going out on a limb there to refer to Big Ben.