Turkey to hold snap election in November

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.

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.

But opposition lawmakers broadly rejected the premier’s call, with the Republican People’s Party-known as the CHP and Turkey’s second most-popular party after Mr. Davutoglu’s AKP-slamming Mr. Erdogan for destabilizing the country in an effort to expand his authority.

But the CHP and third-placed Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have announced that they will not take part in a short-term government.

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Turkish President Recep T. Erdogan has made his move – appointed early parliamentary elections.

Erdogan, who last week said he wanted an election on November 1, is accused by some critics of sabotaging coalition talks and seeking a new vote to gain a majority for the AKP so it can again govern alone.

“We will take our country to elections”, Erdogan told reporters Friday.

Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against Kurdistan Workers’ party militants on Wednesday night, after eight soldiers were killed in the south-east, the deadliest attack of the crisis.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu formally ended attempts to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed. Investors have already been unnerved by rising violence in the mostly Kurdish southeast and by Turkey’s growing role in the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

The prospect of another election has failed to assuage market worries about the $870 billion economy, not least because there is no guarantee that a re-run will produce anything other than another inconclusive outcome. Bahçeli is very critical of Erdoğan’s one-man rule and the corruption allegations his government is involved in, but with his attitude towards the HDP he opposes one of the basic principles of democracy and loses all democratic credibility.

Erdogan went into the June 7 election hoping to expand his party’s decade-long grip on Parliament enough to rewrite the constitution and concentrate much more power in the presidency.

Under the constitution a so-called “election government”, comprising all the political parties represented in parliament, will lead Turkey from the calling of the vote to the election.

“Otherwise we could be faced with an inevitable, bloody civil war”, said its leader Devlet Bahceli.