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| Turkey snap election called after coalition talks fail | Turkey snap election called after coalition talks fail |
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| President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that Turkey will hold snap elections, expected on 1 November. | 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. | The political uncertainty comes amid rising violence in Turkey and neighbouring Iraq and Syria. |
| Election 're-run' | Election 're-run' |
| President Erdogan will ask Prime Minister Davutoglu early next week to form a temporary power-sharing government, senior officials said. | President Erdogan will ask Prime Minister Davutoglu early next week to form a temporary power-sharing government, senior officials said. |
| The Republican People's Party (CHP), which came second in June's vote, had asked for a mandate to try to form a new government. | The Republican People's Party (CHP), which came second in June's vote, had asked for a mandate to try to form a new government. |
| But the president instead opted for a "re-run" of the elections. | |
| Mr Erdogan, who founded the AK Party in 2001, previously denied allegations that he had undermined the coalition talks in order to force a new vote. | Mr Erdogan, who founded the AK Party in 2001, previously denied allegations that he had undermined the coalition talks in order to force a new vote. |
| June's result appeared to block his plans to boost the powers of the presidency in Turkey. | June's result appeared to block his plans to boost the powers of the presidency in Turkey. |
| The AKP secured 41% at the polls the last time around and had to seek support from a rival party to form a coalition government. But it failed to find agreement with both the CHP and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). | |
| An 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. | An 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. | 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. |