Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called new parliamentary elections, after a deadline passed for forming a government with the opposition.
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The announcement came late Monday after Erdogan met Parliament Speaker Ismet Yilmaz in a four-hour meeting.
A presidential statement on Monday didn’t say when the new elections would be held, but Erdogan has previously said they were likely to take place on November 1. But the AKP’s coalition talks with opposition parties failed to produce a government, an outcome critics say the combative Erdogan sought all along.
Erdogan is thought to have pressed for new elections to give the ruling party the chance to win back its majority and rule alone.
Erdogan needs to make the feeling that Turkey cannot make due without him, Kilicdaroglu said on Friday, taking note of that the president tries to fulfill his sense of self by method for crisp surveys.
The president indicated in recent weeks that he was not in favour of coalition governments, but dismissed criticism that he had impeded the coalition negotiations. But he refused to do so because the CHP’s leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu refuses to set foot in Erdogan’s controversial new presidential palace. But his hopes of changing the constitution will hinge on a strong AKP majority in parliament in the new vote.
“With 258 seats, the AKP was 18 seats short of a single-party government”.
The uncertainty, coming as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member battles Islamic State insurgents on its borders and Kurdish militants at home, has unnerved investors and sent the lira currency to a series of record lows.
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More than 100 people, mostly soldiers and police, have been killed since July in renewed conflict between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the security forces, which has wrecked a two-and-a-half-year-old peace process with the Kurds.
