Turkish speaker says hopes Kurdish opposition will join work on new constitution

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends the opening session of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament speaker said on Friday he hoped all parties, including the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), would take part in a parliamentary commission charged with drafting a new constitution.

The ruling AK Party has put replacing the country's coup-era constitution at the heart of its agenda after winning back its parliamentary majority in a November election.