Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would approve the return of the death penalty if parliament sent him a bill on the matter.

Erdogan's justice minister, Bekir Bozdag, said at the weekend that Turkey would consider reinstating the law, which was repealed in 2004, after the president previously raised the issue of the cause of the fires.

His nationalist ally Devlet Bahçeli supported the idea and said that the punishment should be extended to terrorism, rape and murder of women, reports

Reuters

.

"If necessary, this should be put back on the agenda and turned into a debate.

We have to see what will come from this debate", Erdogan is quoted as saying to

NTV

.

"I said it before, if the parliament takes such a decision as a result of the work of our ministry of justice, I will approve this decision," he added.

Otherwise, Turkey has recently been dealing with a lot of fires, which are reported to be intentional.

/Telegraph/