Turkey ‘swiftly’ heading to snap polls: Erdogan

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”.

If the premier gives up his mandate to form a government during his consultations with Mr. Erdogan this week, the president would have to tap the CHP to establish an administration in the remaining time until Sunday.

“God willing, on November 1, Turkey will go through what I like to call repeat elections“, said Erdogan, who told reporters he had no intention of giving Turkey’s opposition leader the opportunity to reform a government.

Turkish regulation requires that the interim authorities embrace members of all 4 events represented in parliament, however two opposition events have already stated they might not take part.

“Our nation’s opinion is above everything else”, Erdoğan said in his first public reaction to the parliamentary elections.

Despite these steps, however, Kurds have continued to accuse Ankara of colluding with Islamic State to thwart the establishment of an independent Kurdish state across the border in Syria – charges denied by Turkey.

The clashes add to investor concerns that political uncertainty is hitting the economy and helped pushed the lira to a record low against the dollar on August. 20, after Davutoglu said Monday that he had exhausted all possibilities for a coalition. He urged parliament to call for a new vote and said he would prefer it was held as soon as possible.

Cengiz Aktar, a political scientist at Istanbul’s Suleyman Sah University, says the president remains the biggest obstacle to any coalition government.

It remains to be seen if the AKP will improve on its vote share of just under 41 percent in the new polls, and commentators have described Erdogan’s strategy as a major political gamble. “The prime minister will determine the government and present it to the president for his signature”.

Information of the brand new election comes amid escalating violence between Turkey’s safety forces and Kurdish rebels, and as Turkey is taking a extra lively position within the U.S.-led marketing campaign towards Islamic State group extremists.

The president’s declarations Friday come on the heels of a ruling by Turkey’s election board this week that it could shorten the constitutionally mandated 90-day period before an early election to 60 days.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) failed to reach an agreement. The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, did better than the AK Parky expected and won 80 seats, depriving the AK Party of even a majority, never mind the two-thirds percentage for which it had hoped.