Turkish parliament set to open for 25th term

2015-06-24 1

Turkey's interim Parliamentary speaker Deniz Baykal delivers a speech at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey before the Turkish parliament's 25th term oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected members of Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey on June 23, 2015.Turkey's interim Parliamentary speaker Deniz Baykal: ''Parliament has a pluralistic basis on which to construct a new democracy. The conditions would no longer allow the continuation of the polarization [within society] which was the result of old conflicts, tensions and impositions.The fact that we have different ethnic, sectarian identities did not prevent us from convening under a common and single national and political identity, nor will it in the future'' ...

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