• Turkey’s president has said he would sign a measure to reinstate the death penalty if parliament passed a law on the subject.
• Justice Minister Devlet Bahceli had announced that Turkey would consider reversing the 2004 abolition of the death sentence after President Erdogan broached the matter.
• We should see what comes of this debate,” Erdogan added.

ANKARA: The Turkish news agency quoted Tayyip Erdogan as saying that he would sign a measure to reinstate the death penalty if the Turkish parliament sent him a law on the subject.

After the president broached the matter in relation to the cause of wildfires, Erdogan’s justice minister announced over the weekend that Turkey would consider reversing the 2004 abolition of the death penalty.

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Devlet Bahceli, a nationalist supporter, has welcomed the concept and stated that the punishment should include terrorism, rape, and the death of women.

“If necessary, this should be brought back on the agenda and made into a debate. We should see what comes of this debate,”  Erdogan added.

“I said it before, if parliament makes such a decision as a result of our justice ministry’s work, I will approve this decision,” he continued.

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