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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Fri Jun 19, 2015, 12:40 PM Jun 2015

Turkey's main opposition floats idea of "rotating" premiership

Turkey's main secularist opposition suggested rotating the post of prime minister with a nationalist party on Friday, in an effort to win support for a coalition government excluding the ruling AK Party.

The AKP lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a June 7 election, dealing a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions of amassing greater power and leaving the party he founded in need of a junior coalition partner.

Erdogan is expected to formally ask Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, leader of the AKP, next week to try to form a coalition. If Davutoglu fails, Erdogan could then ask the second biggest party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), to try to form a working government.

If no coalition can be formed after 45 days, a fresh election would be called.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-turkey-politics-coalition-idUSKBN0OZ1CH20150619

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Many, many, many moons ago I was stationed in Turkey unhappycamper Jun 2015 #2

That's kind of cool. bemildred Jun 2015 #3

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unhappycamper

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2. Many, many, many moons ago I was stationed in Turkey

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Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:17 AM

Jun 2015

Turkey was my first overseas tour after Advanced Individual Training.

Image an 18-yo kid from Iowa - never previously outside CONUS - flying for the first time ever on a 707 - ending up on a small NATO base 50 clicks south of Iznir.

I did the usual tourist stuff - Euphesus, Cappodicia, etc. Learned a little Turkish and really enjoyed that tour.

bemildred

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3. That's kind of cool.

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Sun Jun 21, 2015, 03:12 PM

Jun 2015

I don't think you could ever run out of things to look at there, I like ruins and they have lots of ruins.

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