Some duties and responsibilities of the Turkish Cabinet have been transferred to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a new state of emergency decree, known as a KHK, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday.
The 74-article Decree No. 477, which was published in Turkey’s Official Gazette on Wednesday, includes regulations concerning the presidential system of governance that was adopted in a referendum in 2017.
Under the new arrangements the post of prime minister will be abolished. The president will select his own Cabinet and chair its meetings; and will also be able to form and regulate ministries and remove civil servants, all without parliamentary approval.
Parliament had granted the existing ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) cabinet authority to issue decrees without parliamentary provision before the June 24 election in order to ensure the integration of the new executive system stipulated by the constitutional amendment ahead of the president’s inauguration.
Around 5,000 articles will be amended in which all terms of the Prime Ministry will be lifted and replaced by the president. The cabinet will abolish all laws that stipulate ministries’ organizational structure, as the ministries will henceforth all be appointed by the president-elect.
In order to prevent any discrepancy in the executive system, the cabinet will also issue enactment laws to ensure the authorization of all institutions until the new system is fully integrated.
The decree makes amendments to laws dating from 1924, just after the founding of the Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, to 2017, changing all references to the prime minister and Cabinet of ministers to the president and the president’s office.
The rules, bylaws and regulations that were in force before the decree was promulgated will remain valid as long as they were not abrogated. The new changes will become effective when President Erdoğan, who was re-elected on June 24, takes the oath of office in Parliament on July 9.
Upon the president’s inauguration, a new government will be formed and the cabinet’s authority to issue decrees will end. The president-elect will then issue another decree, after which the new ministries will be formed and the new organizational framework will be determined.
There will be 16 ministries in total and after the formation of the ministries with the decree, the new ministers will be appointed by President Erdoğan. There is no time limit for the appointment of the ministers but it is reported that 16 ministers will be appointed at the same time. After the new ministers take office, bureaucratic cadres will be appointed.
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