Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek said would inform the leaders of the four political parties by letter that it would not be possible to draft a new constitution, said Mehmet Ali Sahin, deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, following the meeting of the Constitutional Conciliation Committee on Monday.
The four parties in the Constitutional Conciliation Committee had been working on Turkey's constitution, which was drafted after a military coup in the early 1980s, to replace with a new one for more than two years.
Atila Kart, a member of the Constitutional Conciliation Committee and an MP of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said the committee agreed to collect all the articles agreed on so far into a book.
Bengi Yildiz, a member of the committee from Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), said they would continue to work on the new constitution unless a political party decided to give up.
"The Parliament speaker does not have the authorization to say that 'I am dissolving the commission' ", Yildiz said.
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