Turkish Parliament İn Recess Until October 14

Opening of the Turkish Parliament will be delayed for two weeks from October 1 to October 14, because of the Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).



Turkish parliament passed a 148-article 'bag of bills' on Tuesday morning. Among the bills are some that relate to working conditions of miners regarding compensation for families of the miners who died in Soma mining accident. Turkish Parliament will be formally opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 1 and then recessed till October 14. 



As well as the bag of bills the MPs formally passed the "preferential trade agreement" between Turkey and Iran which has been signed on January 29, 2014 in Tehran.



They also ratified the memorandum of understanding of Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline between Turkey and Azerbaijan on their last working day.



Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline project will be completed in 2018, which will run from Azerbaijan to Turkey and is expected to have a capacity of 16 billion cubic meters per year. Its capacity will increase to 23 billion cubic meters by 2023, and to 31 billion cubic meters by 2026.



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