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Erdogan is expected to meet the speaker of parliament on Monday to prepare for the next stages, including the formation of a temporary government to carry the country over until the election.

The United States and Turkey will launch a “comprehensive” air campaign to flush Daesh fighters from a designated safe zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Reuters reported.

ANKARA, TURKEY-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated Friday that the nation will maintain an early election November. 1, after no group gained a majority from voters in June and Erdogan’s social gathering was unable to discover a coalition companion.

Addressing locally-elected heads of Turkish villages and neighborhoods at the Presidential Palace in the capital Ankara Wednesday, Erdogan said: “Unfortunately, Turkey could not meet a new government because no results were obtained in the [coalition] talks”.

The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and Turkey’s security forces.

The U.S. on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious.

The response from Washington came with Mark Toner from the US State Department emphasizing “We’ve been pretty clear from the podium and elsewhere saying there’s no zone, no safe haven-we’re not talking about that here. What our minister pointed out is that...

The Turkish government has censured the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for airing a report on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying the news organization is “overtly” supporting “terrorism”. Instead of allowing the Republican...

After the AKP lost parliamentary majority on June 7, Davutoglu was given the mandate to form a new government by Erdogan on July 9. He said he would hold talks with the parliament speaker after the 45-day legal period for forming a government ends Sunday.

He said he would confer with the speaker of parliament to make the call after the 45-day period to form a government ends Sunday night.

Prime minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television.

Turkey said on Tuesday it had agreed with the United States on terms for setting up a “safe zone” inside northern Syria as part of their campaign against Islamic State militants, but the US State Department denied there was any such agreement.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu abandoned efforts to build a coalition government on Tuesday, following the failure of talks with the leaders of two smaller parties.

A new Islamic State video is taking aim at Turkey, issuing a call to arms to “conquer Istanbul”.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was on Tuesday set to formally acknowledge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he can not form a coalition government, paving the way for new elections just months after the June polls.