President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reportedly signaled he has no intention of giving a mandate to form a new government to the Republican People’s Party (CHP), indicating instead his willingness to form a short-tenure government that would carry the country to early elections.
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has proposed a single-topic referendum to ask people about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ambition to change the constitution and become an active president in a presidential regime
telegraph.co.uk – Richard Spencer – Aug 17
“Unless there are guarantees we cannot make unilateral steps.” The resurgence of fighting between Turkey and the PKK, which has fought a guerrilla war for autonomy for more than 30 years with Ankara, has made the job of the US-led
ANKARA As efforts to form a new government flounder and Turkish jets bombard Kurdish militants, President Tayyip Erdogan is hoping to turn Turkey’s deepest uncertainty in more than a decade to his advantage. Declaring the end of single-party rule a…
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