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| Turkey snap election called by President Erdogan | Turkey snap election called by President Erdogan |
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| President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that Turkey will hold snap elections, expected on 1 November. | |
| Voters will go to the polls again after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu abandoned efforts to form a coalition government. | Voters will go to the polls again after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu abandoned efforts to form a coalition government. |
| Mr Davutoglu's AK Party lost its 12-year majority rule in Turkey in elections in June largely because of the success of the pro-Kurdish HDP. | Mr Davutoglu's AK Party lost its 12-year majority rule in Turkey in elections in June largely because of the success of the pro-Kurdish HDP. |
| Coalition talks with the nationalist MHP and main opposition CHP failed. | Coalition talks with the nationalist MHP and main opposition CHP failed. |
| The political uncertainty comes amid rising violence in Turkey and neighbouring Iraq and Syria. | |
| Turkey's uneasy two-year ceasefire with the PKK fell apart last month, after a suicide bomb blamed on IS killed 32 young activists in the largely Kurdish city of Suruc, close to the Syrian border. | |
| In recent weeks Turkish forces have carried out attacks on militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and have bombed Kurdish PKK camps mainly in northern Iraq. |