Security bill delayed again as opposition vows to fight

The debate on the government's controversial security bill, scheduled to be held in parliament today after being postponed last week, has been delayed again, as the three opposition parties in the legislature plan to file motion after motion to stop the bill in its tracks.

Parliamentary debates of the draft law changing various articles of the laws on the authorities of the police and the gendermarie were to start today, but the ruling party announced yesterday that they will not start before at least another week. All three of the opposition parties at parliament have vowed to cooperate and "use all their rights" to prevent the bill from being passed.

The law, which consists of 132 articles, will be debated in five main sections, and the opposition parties have decided to use their motion rights on each of the articles, as well as other rights granted to them by parliament's internal regulations. According to this strategy, after debates on the law, some 400 motions presented by the opposition parties will be discussed. The three parties will demand the full name of the bill, which comes to 130 words, be read at every motion discussion, meaning that debatingeach article will last at least 15 minutes. 

After the debate on each article, three deputies who have filed the motion will have the right to talk for five minutes each about each one. The opposition deputies will also demand that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies are present at the General Assembly in order to reach the quorum. 

However, before filing their motions, each of the opposition parties will claim that the bill is unconstitutional and open up debates on protocol. To extend the discussions even further, they will also demand that the discussion...