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| The Grand Turk |
| 'Civilian coup' carried out in Turkey, CHP leader says |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... is staging a "civilian coup" over plans to hold snap elections after the recent failure of coalition talks, Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has said. The CHP, which held weeks of coalition talks with the AKP, says Erdogan deliberately stymied the negotiations in the hope of triggering new polls and a better result for his party. "There is no law in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... at the moment. Democracy is currently suspended and the constitution is not working," Kilicdaroglu told a televised meeting of CHP MPs in Ankara on Aug. 23. "We are faced with a civilian coup," he said, in a nod to Turkey's modern history, which has seen the country experience three direct military coups in 1960, 1971 and 1980. Kilicdaroglu said the CHP, which came second in the June 7 polls, was willing to be the minority partner in a coalition led by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, which would have been "respected inside and outside" of Turkey. In order for this to be realized, his party wanted to see change on three major issues: Foreign policy which needed a "180 degree transformation," the economy, and an education system "that leaves no parent satisfied." On Aug. 21, President Erdogan announced that he would meet the speaker of the Turkish parliament on Aug. 24 to exercise his right to call snap elections, slated to be held on Nov. 1. The CHP is incensed that Erdogan did not hand it the mandate and a chance to form a coalition government after the failure of talks with the AKP, accusing him of violating the constitution. |
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