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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: 2, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:54PM
Wow, J-Mo. I will say this, der Drumpfenscheissmeister's election has really brought out all the crazy and evil from where it was hiding. I always knew you were bat-buggering insane, but this confirms you're actually evil, too. You have no idea, NONE, what kind of disaster for the entire human race this is going to be...either that, or you do, and you want it.
Do you actually think you'll survive this? Do you really think you're a temporarily-embarrassed member of the elite, and not just some useless, invisible peon like the rest of us? I've news for you, sunny Jim: you are just about as screwed as any of those minorities you hate so much. You have far more in common with the black single mother on food stamps than you do with ANY of the ruling class.
The people you're cheering for won't even notice it when their machine rolls over you, picking you up and slowly, horribly mangling you to death in the gears. Your screams of agony, your gushing blood, the crunch of your bones, NONE of this will register with them. If you're actually okay with this? Then that means you are precisely morally equivalent to a suicide bomber, but one with the explosive reach to take out hundreds of millions of people at a time.
ikanreed is correct: you are a Nazi in all the ways that matter. Die in a fire, and then keep burning in Hell.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...