Ankara: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his country should make a new constitution to embrace the dreams of all its people, local media reported.
“Let’s make a new, civil, libertarian constitution that embraces the dreams of all the people of this country,” Erdogan, who was speaking in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported Friday.
He made the remarks at a houses groundbreaking ceremony in Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city which was still affected by the February 6 earthquakes, it reported.
“In this Turkey, no one can be despised or marginalised due to their origin, belief, language, or attire,” Erdogan added.
Erdogan said Turkey plans to construct enough buildings in a year to meet the needs of earthquake victims, adding that 3,19,000 houses would be built in that period, Xinhua news agency reported.
Two powerful earthquakes February 6 struck 11 Turkish provinces, killing more than 50,000 people in the country. An estimated 14 million people, or 16 percent of Turkey’s population, were affected by the disaster.
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