The new chairman of Turkey’s governing AK Party and incoming Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced the new cabinet of the 65th government on Tuesday following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s approval.
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The transition also coincides with growing tensions with the European Union over a controversial deal to reduce the flow of illegal migrants from Turkey to Greece, which Mr Davutoglu helped broker.
“I believe this crooked practice that’s negatively influencing the climate between the president and his political cadre will be fixed”, Mr. Erdogan said in a message to Sunday’s AKP convention, where Mr. Yildirim was elected as party chief. “I’ve made this clear to the Turkish president”, Merkel said.
“Turkey is not asking for favours what we want is honesty”, Erdogan said, speaking alongside UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the closing news conference.
Yildirim’s appointment will stamp out any vestiges of resistance in the AKP to Erdogan’s plans, three senior party officials said, forecasting that the new cabinet, expected to be announced on Tuesday, would contain only loyalists.
“Turkey could review all relations with the EU including the customs union deal”, Bulut said.
“It’s foreseeable that some things won’t be able to be implemented by July 1, namely visa freedom because the conditions are not yet fulfilled”, Merkel said on Monday following her meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. “New constitution and presidential system is the way for it”, AKP new leader Binali Yildirim told a party congress. “The fight against domestic and worldwide terrorism will be high on our agenda”.
Merkel also voiced deep concern over the Turkish parliament’s recent decision to strip MPs of their immunity.
Mr. Erdogan became Turkey’s first publicly elected president in August 2014, and argues that the popular mandate has already turned his office into the seat of government.
Turkish stocks rallied 2.5 percent, the most since April 13, led by Turkiye Garanti Bankasi’s 3.8 percent advance.
Both Erdogan and Yildirim are strongly opposed to resuming talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the militant group that has killed hundreds of members of the security forces since a two-year ceasefire collapsed in 2015. At least 330 members of parliament will need to support the move. The country will now depend even more on the will of the only person.
“They toppled the previous government by a palace coup’, he claimed, vowing that his party will continue to resist the government’s push to change the Turkish regime from a parliamentary democracy to an executive presidency”.
While Germany’s opposition Greens and Left Party have blasted the deal-making with Erdogan, resistance has also emerged from within Merkel’s ranks.
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“It is not the first time a government is formed in Turkey”.
