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Introduction
The current political system of Turkey can be referred as Executive Presidency System (Cumhurbaşkanlığı Hükümet Sistemi). This system has unique laws and structures that is made specifically for Turkey. Executive Presidency System has a unitary government structure and allows the President to be a member of a party. Whether this system is the most suitable or not has been a debate among experts.

Structure

 * Before 2007 Turkish constitutional Referendum, the president was elected by the parliament as a part of the parliamentary system. However with this referendum, in order to shift to a more semi-presidential system, it was determined that the president would be elected by the public . Finally, after 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, it was decided that both the president and the MP's would be elected on the same day every 5 years.
 * With the 2017 constitutional referendum, the structure of the Council of Ministers have changed into the Cabinet of the President. This Cabinet consists of the vice president(s) and Ministers that are not Members of the Parliament. Before 2017, there used to be 24 Ministers and now there are 16 because some positions have been morphed to one. Examples: Ministry of the European Union joined the Ministry of Foreign Relations; the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology conjoined with the Ministry of Development and became the Ministry of Industry and Technology.


 * The president can still be a member and the president of a political party.

Functions

 * Veto : The president can veto the laws that was made by the assembly and ask for a redo.
 * Budget: Before 2017 referendum, the annual budget would be prepared by the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers and they would get approved by the legislative. However now, the president prepares the budget and the legislative approves it.
 * Decrees: With the 2017 referendum, president now has a right to issue decrees while appointing Ministers, official, vice-presidents and also to exercise their power. However, there are limitations to his decree power where he/she can not intervene with person's fundamental human rights and their duties.
 * Foreign Relations: The president represents the country as the head of state.

Impeachment
In case of a situation where the president is under criminal liability, the parliament has a right to initiate an investigation by the Supreme Court through 3 stages.


 * 1) The parliament has 600 members and in order to make a proposition for an investigation more than half of the MP's (301 minimum) should sign the proposition.
 * 2) After the proposition is signed by 301 members minimum, the assembly discusses the proposition and can only open the investigation if 3/5 of the members (360 minimum)  approves it.
 * 3) When the proposition passes, 2/3 of the members of the assembly (400 minimum) should agree to send the president to the Supreme Court for his/her trial.