Erdoğan: I Have Assigned 10 Legal Experts for the New Constitution

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the new constitution work at the Expanded Provincial Chairmen Meeting held at AK Party headquarters and said, "As of yesterday, I assigned 10 legal expert colleagues and our colleagues will begin work."

In his speech coinciding with the 65th anniversary of the May 27 coup, Erdoğan described the coup as "the first link in the chain of coups" and "a wound that is still bleeding"; he said, "It is the CHP leadership of that era that laid the stones of the road leading to May 27." Saying "We will also save this nation from the shame of the coup constitution," Erdoğan described the new constitution as "a complete list of freedoms" and said that as the People's Alliance they hoped to meet on common ground with the other parties in Parliament.

Touching also on the Terror-Free Türkiye process, Erdoğan stated that in the work that matured with the initiative of MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli, the critical threshold had been "passed smoothly" and that "a new page has been turned." Erdoğan said, "We know very well what we are doing with Mr. Bahçeli."

Regarding the financial situation of municipalities, Erdoğan said, "Most municipalities, especially opposition municipalities, are mired in debt," and reiterated the rule that "personnel expenses in municipalities cannot exceed 30 percent of the budget, they must not." Saying "The nation's money is not and cannot be anyone's personal PR fiefdom," Erdoğan used the phrase, "We want to address municipalities, which concern all 86 million people, as above politics."

Announcing that they had named the floating production platform in the Black Sea gas work "Osman Gazi," Erdoğan said that with the platform, which is three football pitches long, entering service, the natural gas needs of 8 million households in the country would be met from our own resources in 2026. The platform will be sent off from Dolmabahçe on the 572nd anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul.