An official from Turkey`s ruling party AKP suggested on Monday that the Turkish Parliament should be able to suspend Constitutional Court rulings. The proposal draft of Parliamentary Justice Committee Chairman and AKP MP Ahmet Iyimaya, declared in a written statement, aims to limit the Constitutional Court`s power.
According to Iyimaya`s proposal draft, the Turkish Parliament will be able to suspend Constitutional Court rulings in the cases filed for "objecting" to a bill or "demanding the annulment of" a bill passed by parliament.
The proposal to demand a suspension of a court ruling shall be made by at least one-third of the MPs in the parliament with a written petition, and the decision to suspend a ruling shall be taken by the approval of three-fifths of the parliament in a secret vote, Iyimaya said in a statement on Monday.
The Constitutional Court's decision to annul the bill lifting the headscarf ban in universities, sparked a fierce debate as some experts and the AKP government suggested the court overstepped its jurisdiction as it cannot examine constitutional amendments on their essence, while others say it has right to do so if they believed nonamendable articles of the Turkish Constitution are under threat.
The main opposition party CHP immediately reacted to the proposal, saying such a step would mean "dissolving" the top court.