TURKISH GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DECLINES OPPOSITION PARTY’S PROPOSAL TO START INVESTIGATION AGAINST PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Feb 28 2007
ANKARA, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On February
27, Turkish Grand National Assembly with correlation of 321 votes
opposed and 118 in favor declined the proposal of Republican-People’s
opposition party to start investigation against country’s Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Minister of Internal Affairs
Abdulkadir Aksu. This was reported by the Cihan news agency.
The Republican-People’s Party accuses Erdogan and Aksu of not doing
their duties properly, in particular, in connection with murders of
editor-in-chief of Istanbul’s Agos newspaper, Hrant Dink and Catholic
clergyman Andrea Santoro, attack upon the State Council.
The proposal had been introduced to the parliament’s management on
February 15.