Turkey opposition parties vow to restore parliamentary power and curb presidency

The opposition has blamed Turkey’s woes, including an economic downturn and an erosion of rights and freedoms, on Mr Erdogan’s system which they say amounts to a “one-man rule”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey pledged to bring back parliamentary democracy and scrap the executive presidential system that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced three years ago.

In a ceremony in Ankara, the parties’ leaders put their signatures on a 48-page declaration confirming their resolve to introduce a strengthened parliamentary system should they unseat Mr Erdogan in elections currently scheduled for June 2023.