Proposed laws may expand Erdogan’s power dramatically. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Complete these sentences- Fill in the gaps.

1. Big Changes Coming To Turkey
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Proposed laws may expand Erdogan’s power dramatically. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian,
and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in
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“A Turkish parliamentary commission has approved draft constitutional amendments
that introduce a new executive presidential system, giving President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan more powers.
The commission's nod on Friday after nine days of debate, paves the way for a vote in
parliament and is supported by politicians from the ruling Justice and Development
Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
Under the changes, the prime minister's post will be abolished, while the president
and vice president will have full executive powers.
The commission completed approval of the draft in a marathon 17-hour session,
parliamentary sources told Reuters news agency.
The draft proposal allows the president to be a party member. Erdogan had to
nominally step aside as AKP leader after he was elected president in 2014, as the
constitution designates the head of state as a non-partisan office.”
Read more here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12...
Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola

2. Complete these sentences:
1.- If the post of prime minister is
abolished,
a.- is the leader of the legislature.
2.- In a parliamentary system, it is the
prime minister the one who
b.- that of the president in the U.S.
3.- The balancing factor when there is
both a primer minister and a president
can be
c.- to cut his formal ties with his political
party.
4.- Under the amendment, the role of
the president of Turkey would resemble
d.- deeply secular and not at all religious.
5.- Under the amendment, president
Erdogan will no longer need
e.- a split reaction about the
amendments.
6.- Cenk Uygur has f.- to gain power.
7.- While Erdogan is a fundamentalist in
terms of his religious views, Cenk Uygur
is
g.- the balancing factor between the
prime minister and the president will be
gone.
8.- A parliamentary system allows
someone who is far too fundamentalist
and religious
h.- lost if the office of prime minister
disappears.
9.- From Cenk Uygur’s point of view, in a
parliamentary system
a.- is not going to go in 10 years.
10.- From Cenk Uygur’s point of view, in a
religious party they
b.- they have far too much power.
11.- From Cenk Uygur’s point of view,
although religious groups in Israel are
not the largest,
c.- everything splinters.
12.- Through one of the amendments,
there is an increase
d.- they literally took his power away.
13.- Cenk Uygur’s biggest concern is that
Erdogan
e.- against people who have criticized
him.
14.- Ana Kasparian thinks that Erdogan’s f.- from two to four years in the

3. attitude is presidency.
15.- Ana Kasparian is worried because
Erdogan has taken action
g.- obviously a power grab.
16.- Lawmakers in North Carolina didn’t
like their new Democrat governor, so
h.- vote like robots.
17.- General elections will be held every
five years,
a.- wants to hold them up as a model of
how a Muslim nation can be democratic
and secular and part of the West
18.- One poll from the UK showed b.- more religious, more fundamentalist
and grabbing more power.
19.- Erdogan has denied c.- holds in the Western world and in the
secular world
20.- Turkey is a secular democracy, 99%
Muslim and the whole world
d.- instead of four.
21.- Turkey is e.- with giant egos.
22.- It is critical that Turkey f.- that 55% of the people support the
change already.
23.- Fethullah Gülen, now in Pennsylvania,
is
g.- the second-largest army in NATO and
the seventeenth largest economy in the
world.
24.- Both Erdogan and Fethullah Gülen
are old right-wingers
g.- taking revenge against opponents.
Fill in the gaps:

4. 1.- Fethullah Gülen has organized a ………………………..
2.- They take 25% of people’s ……………………
3.- They ……………………wealth very quickly.
4.- Erdogan wants to ………………………this cult.
5.- There is some international ………… involving Israel and
America.
6.- The fundamentalist ………..was in cahoots with the American
government.
7.- He should have arrested some guys after the …
8.- Erdogan arrested some left-wing guys based on …
evidence.
9.- Terrible terrorism ………. not only involve ISIS but also a
Kurdish terrorist group.
10.- Terrorism …………….people.
11.- People want a …………………….man.
12.- Erdogan wants to get …………of that cult.
accumulate
attacks
coup
cult
flimsy
guy
incomes
intrigue
rid
strong
unnerves
uproot