Turkish parliament shares legislative experiences with world

ANKARA (A.A) - October 4, 2011 - The Turkish Parliament is sharing its experiences in legislative area with many countries in the world.
Parliament, so far, has extended support in legislative area to many countries including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia and Algeria.
Sharing its 91-year experiences, Turkish Parliament will extend legislative support to countries of Turkish world, Asia, Balkans, Middle East and Africa in the new term.
Parliament's experts on legislation are giving intensive training programs to delegations coming from foreign countries.
Parliament's organizational and personnel structure, international committees, friendship groups, foreign relations, research center and library are among the topics of the training program.
Foreign delegations are presented certificates after the training program.
Turkish Parliament was founded in Ankara on April 23, 1920 in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence. The Parliament was fundamental in the efforts of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to found a new state out of the remnants of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the World War I.
There are 550 members of Parliament who are elected for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system, from 85 electoral districts which represent the 81 administrative provinces of Turkey. To avoid a hung parliament and its excessive political fragmentation, only parties that win at least 10 percent of the votes cast in a national parliamentary election gain the right to representation in the Parliament. Independent candidates may also run and can be elected without needing a threshold.
Since the 2002 general elections, an absolute majority of the seats belongs to the members of the Justice and Development (AK) Party.