PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF REVISED CONSTITUTION TO BE HELD IN TURKEY FOR THE FIRST TIME
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.11.2007 18:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "As result of European integration process,
Kemalism stopped being perceived as the official ideology of the
Turkish state," Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at
the RA Academy of Sciences, Professor Ruben Safrastyan said during
round-table discussions titled "Turkey after presidential elections:
constitutional changes and internal transformations."
He reminded that Kemalism used to base on solidity of the Turkish
state. "Presently, old and new elites (Kemalists and AKP) put
up struggle. The main factor of this opposition is the revised
Constitution that will be for the first time publicly discussed after
official promulgation December 15," prof. Safrastyan said.
Founder of present-day Turkey Kemal Ataturk proclaimed: "How fortunate
it is to be Turk", thus laying the basis of mono-ethnic Turkish state.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress