Turkey PM appointed to form interim government in run-up to election

Davutoğlu was made Prime Minister however principle resistance party, the Kemalist Republican People’s gathering (CHP), energetically contradicted such a move, while square with third-biggest HDP and conservative patriots MHP additionally had outlandish contrasts with the decision party.

Turkey held parliamentary election June 7, which involved 20 political parties.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu formally ended attempts to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed.

The Islamic-rooted ruling party, which Erdogan founded, lost its parliamentary majority in June for the first time since 2002. “Now, what should be done is to update this de facto situation in the legal framework of the constitution”, In other words, Mr. Erdogan is already the executive president who decides everything – if “de facto authority” sounds an awful lot like “illegal power grab”, that’s just a misunderstanding…

The sight of Kurdish opposition politicians in cabinet seats would anger nationalists, potentially costing the AKP votes in November and again preventing a single-party government.

“We will not hesitate to exercise our constitutional right to take part in the government, ” Demirtas said, adding that all the 80 HDP MPs would have to agree to any proposal except for him and party co-leader Figen Yuksekdag, who will be preparing for the election campaign.

“After that, we will take our nation to right on time races”, Erdogan said.

However, Demirtas warned that he would not be surprised if leaders from the AKP aimed to exclude the HDP by reaching out directly to CHP and MHP parliamentarians with cabinet post offers: “we should not be surprised if they breach the constitution and try to form a government without HDP. Such an attempt would be rejected by the Constitutional Court”. Semdinli is near Turkey’s borders with Iraq and Iran.

“It doesn’t really matter which ministries we get, all in all it’s a temporary cabinet, and it doesn’t have much chance of achieving much concrete action”.