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English translation of the 2010 Constitution of Turkey (1982 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, as amended to Law No. 5982 of 2010).

English translation of the 2011 Constitution of Turkey (1982 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, as amended to Act No. 6214 of 2011).

English translation of the 2017 Constitution of Turkey (1982 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, as amended to 2017).

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Following the administrative court decision that annulled the Cabinet Decision of 1934 that converted Hagia Sophia into a museum, President Erdogan made the decision to transfer the management of the site to the Presidency of Religious Affairs and restore it as a mosque open to worship.

Among the preserved rasāʼil (letters) of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib (d. 132/ 750), the testament written for the ʿAbdallāh, the son of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwān II (r. 127-132/745–750), serves as one of the most pivotal legal-political treatises for early Islamic legal history. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib was the head of the chancery under Marwān II (r. 127-132/745–750). He elucidated in this testament matters of statecraft, particularly the duties and functions of the ṣāḥib al-shurṭa, the head of the elite military corps.  In this treatise, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd describes the ṣāḥib al-shurṭa as an official who acted as both an elite military commander and magistrate responsible for investigating criminal cases and punishing them in accordance with the judgments of the ruler. 

The source was edited (along with other letters) by the late Iḥsān ʻAbbās in his book, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyá al-Kātib, wa-mā Tabaqqá min rasāʼilih wa-rasāʼil Sālim Abī Al-ʻAlāʼ. Amman, Jordan: Dār al-Sharq, 1988, and scans of the few pages dedicated to the shurṭa have been made available.