So basically Erdogans controversial new measures are a copy of the shining light of democracy, the USA.
The president will have a five-year tenure, for a maximum of two terms
The president will be able to directly appoint top public officials, including ministers and one or several vice-presidents
The job of prime minister will be scrapped
The president will have power to intervene in the judiciary, which Mr Erdogan has accused of being influenced by Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based preacher he blames for the failed coup in July
The president will decide whether or not impose a state of emergency
That would depend on whether you view public hanging of teenage lads from a crane for homosexuality as a functioning state. You have an odd view of functioning state Sydney, but each to their own.
The penalties for private, consensual sexual conduct between same sex adults remain harsh in a number of Commonwealth countries. They include 10 years imprisonment and hard labour in Jamaica, 14 years in Kenya, 20 years plus flogging in Malaysia, and 25 years in Trinidad and Tobago. Bangladesh, Barbados, Guyana, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda have a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, while in the 12 northern states of Nigeria the maximum penalty for male homosexuality is death
It wouldn’t. Just because a certain country does something you don’t like, it doesn’t mean it’s not a functioning state, which Iran clearly is under any objective criteria.
It should be said that Iran’s approach to both homosexuality and capital punishment in general would quite appeal to many reactionary right-wingers in Ireland.
You’re a fascist pig - A Blueshirt, a Franco supporter and a Roma Nazi… Giving it big licks that communism destroyed fascism when you are the biggest fascist on the forum.
You are being pedantic. How unusual. Any state which uses a strange interpretation of a strange religion as the basis of its rules and regulations is not normally functioning. It is dysfunctional. Most states are, to a greater or lesser degree mind.
Turkey is sliding toward a theocracy which is no basis for a rational functioning system.
He’s a proven Blueshirt supporter. He supports Franco’s Royalists and he adores the Roma Nazis … He’s now admitted to being a homophone and murdering colonist - He’s the most vile cunt on the forum who will stick in the odd ’ Up the ra’ - just to stay down with the bhoys.
I’m not being pedantic at all. Iran is quite obviously a functioning state. Whether you or I like the way it operates or not is completely irrelevant - it is clearly a functioning state.
