Constitution

The EC says that its position on Catalonia remained unchanged after Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy said the Constitution's Article 155 would be triggered.

Spain is to start suspending Catalonia's autonomy from Saturday, as the region's leader threatens to declare independence.

The government said ministers would meet to activate Article 155 of the constitution, allowing it to take over running of the region.

Catalonia's leader said the region's parliament would vote on independence if Spain continued "repression".

It was clear from the get-go that the legal amendments hurried through by the government in June to put an end to a strike by municipal garbage collectors over the loss of fixed-term contract workers' jobs was skating on thin constitutional ice.

Constitutions say that judiciaries are independent and impartial, and nobody can order or give instructions to them. Our constitution rules this too

Professor Şükrü Karatepe, one of the president's advisors, recently spoke about the constitutional amendment that we will vote on in the referendum on April 17. "Perhaps we will implement it for three or five years. Then we'll take a look and if we see if it is working or not. If it is not, we'll get parliament to change it again," he said.

A former Turkish judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Rıza Türmen, wrote a piece titled "A 10-question guide to evaluate the constitution," for the news website t24.com.tr, where he refers to a distinction German jurist Carl Schmitt has made between constitutions as "resilient to dictatorships and non-resilient to dictatorships." 

Turkey is no longer polarized. Polarization has reached to such dimensions that as if several "nations of extremes" are living side by side in this country, not only ignoring the sensitivities of the "other" nations but trying to prove their superiority in every way possible. Can this be called "the culture of the powerful"?

The excessiveness of arrangements and discharges conducted with state of emergency decrees is drawing more criticism. The government was granted this opportunity by Constitutional Court decision number 2016/159. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan approved on Feb. 10 constitutional amendments that will bring drastic changes to the country's political system, including a shift to an executive presidential system from the current parliamentary system.

The package will now be put to a referendum, likely on April 16, in accordance with a date to be selected by the Supreme Election Board (YSK).

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - The Mexican capital, just days from officially bringing its new Constitution into law, will make the right to a 'dignified death' (or the right of terminally ill civilians to end their own lives) a constitutional right.