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The Turkish government reiterated this position when the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Rüştu Aras, in his address to the Turkish National Assembly on the occasion of the ratification of the Montreux Treaty, recognised Greece's legal right to deploy troops on Lemnos and Samothrace with the following statement: "The provisions ...
8 July 1937 Treaty of Saadabad: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan: 14 September 1937 Nyon Arrangement: United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Greece, Romania, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia 18 June 1941 German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship: Germany: 26 February 1955 Baghdad Pact (later CENTO) United Kingdom, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan: 11 February 1959 19 ...
It has been said that, at a meeting in 1928, Gulbenkian drew a red line on a map of the Middle East demarcating the boundaries of the area where the self-denial clause would be in effect. [7] Gulbenkian said this was the boundary of the Ottoman Empire he knew in 1914. He should know, he added, because he was born in it and lived in it.
The Turkish parliament formed a committee to compare the civil codes of European countries. Austrian, German, French, and Swiss civil codes were examined. [1] Finally on 25 December 1925 the commission decided on the Swiss civil code as a model for the Turkish civil code. [2] The Turkish Civil Code was enacted on 17 February 1926.
Notes [8] 1: 17 May 1987: Voting age lowered from 21 to 19, Number of MPs raised from 400 to 450, Lifted 1980 ban on politicians, 1987 Turkish constitutional referendum: 2: 8 July 1993: Public radio and televisions allowed 3: 23 July 1995: Voting age lowered from 19 to 18, Number of MPs raised from 450 to 550 4: 18 June 1999
Turkey has a rich constitutional history, dating from 1808 to the present. [1] Over the years, Turkey has had many constitutions and radical amendments made to those constitutions. The four main constitutions of Turkey since inception have been the Constitution of 1921, the Constitution of 1924, the Constitution of 1961 and the Constitution of ...
The Tanzimat [a] (Turkish:; Ottoman Turkish: تنظيمات, romanized: Tanẓîmât, lit. 'Reorganization', see nizam) was a period of Western influenced reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Edict of Gülhane in 1839.
Section I - Fundamental Provisions, Articles 1-8: Section I describes the basic structural concepts of the newly established Turkish government. These provisions included establishment of a republic which places legislative and executive power in the hands of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye who are given the authority to elect the ...