Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned Turkey's largest business organisation, TÜSİAD, that it risks "elimination" if it fails to take a stance on the country's referendum on constitutional change, to be held on 12 September. EurActiv Turkey contributed to this article.

Turkey’s ruling AK party of Prime Ministers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won a landmark referendum on Sunday (12 September) introducing changes to the country’s constitution. The victory of the ‘yes’ camp by 58% against 42, higher than anticipated, is expected to strengthen the AKP ahead of national elections due next year.

Turkey's parliament approved early on 7 May a bill introduced by the ruling AK Party to reform the constitution, clearing the way for a referendum militant secularists have pledged to block in court.

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday (12 November) urged the EU to speed up accession talks with Turkey, pledging that the next EU presidencies would be more committed to that goal than Turkey-critic France.

It appears that Ankara will have to face another hurdle on its path to EU membership as Turkey-critical Austria has pledged to put the issue to a public vote if the Union agrees to accept Turkey's bid to join the bloc.

Egemen Bağış, Turkey's chief EU negotiator, sought yesterday (29 September) to unblock Ankara's accession bid by calling on European Union countries to call referenda on the country's EU membership. Turkey may also chose to consult its citizens, he said.

J.E. Dyer notes, quite correctly that a particularly ominous development occurred this weekend in Turkey. The Turks voted in a series of 'reforms' to its constitution that, aside from giving the policies of Islamist regime of Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP a referendum emasculates the two moderating forces in Turkey; the army and the courts. First, the changes will allow Erdogan to try the m...

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