ANKARA
The Turkish Parliament will discuss the remaining articles of the highly-debated new domestic security bill within this week, according to a deputy of the ruling AK Party.
"The remaining execution and enforcement articles will be discussed within the week," Mustafa Elitas, deputy group chairman of the Justice and Development Party, told The Anadolu Agency Wednesday.
The controversial domestic security bill was prepared by the government after a series of protests accusing it of allegedly not doing enough to save the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from Daesh in October 2014. The protests left more than 40 people dead.
Debates on the draft legislation began on Feb. 17, and on March 13, 67 of the 132 articles of the bill were approved by the parliament.
The rest were discussed again by the parliament's lower committee and 63 articles were pulled out completely on March 19 after intense debates with opposition parties, who say the proposed law allegedly curbs individual rights and freedoms.
The adopted part of the reform package, which had been debated in parliament and approved bit by bit, criminalizes participating in protests with covered faces and makes the possession of Molotov cocktails punishable by up to five years behind bars.
