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Turkey election: President Erdogan urges swift government | Turkey election: President Erdogan urges swift government |
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the country's political parties to "leave egos aside" and form a government as soon as possible. | Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the country's political parties to "leave egos aside" and form a government as soon as possible. |
It is the first time he has spoken publicly since his ruling AK Party lost its parliamentary majority on 7 June. | It is the first time he has spoken publicly since his ruling AK Party lost its parliamentary majority on 7 June. |
Speaking in the capital Ankara, he said all sides must respect the election outcome "as the will of the people". | Speaking in the capital Ankara, he said all sides must respect the election outcome "as the will of the people". |
The AKP is now likely to try to form a coalition, but no party has indicated it is willing to join forces with it. | |
Breaking his silence at a graduation ceremony for international students, Mr Erdogan warned that history would judge anyone who left Turkey in political limbo. | Breaking his silence at a graduation ceremony for international students, Mr Erdogan warned that history would judge anyone who left Turkey in political limbo. |
"We cannot leave Turkey without a government, without a head," he said, adding that he hoped political parties would "prefer solution rather than crisis". | |
He said he would do his part in finding a solution and that nobody should doubt he will carry out his duties within the constitution. | |
The AKP secured 41% of the vote in Sunday's election, a sharp drop compared to the 2011 vote. | |
It has 45 days after the final official election results are declared to form a government - but that declaration is yet to happen. | |
If no coalition deal is reached, a fragile minority government and early elections loom. | |
'Coalitions not suitable' | |
Earlier, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the AKP was open to all options but warned that history had shown coalition governments were not suitable for Turkey. | |
"We've used the coalition eras of the 1970s and 1990s as an example to show that coalitions are not suitable for Turkey and we still stand by that stance," Davutoglu told a meeting of AKP officials. | |
But he added that in the "current political picture" the AKP were "the only party that can come up with realistic solutions". | |
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Mr Davutoglu resigned earlier this week after the AK Party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years, but Mr Erdogan asked him to stay on until a new government is formed. | |
Securing a working coalition will be tough, with opposition parties likely to demand limits on President Erdogan's role. | |
In the build up to the election, he had been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey into a presidential republic. | |
But the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) upset his ambitions by crossing the 10% threshold and securing seats in parliament for the first time. | |
On Thursday, HDP co-leader Selahattin Demirtas said his party was open to working with other opposition parties but ruled out forming a coalition with the AKP. | |
"Pulling Turkey into early election debates right away will not help. We believe Turkey has to continue on its way by forming a coalition," he told reporters in Ankara. | |
He also said that the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, was ready to make a call for disarmament and that a peace process with the militants should soon move forward. | |
Mr Demirtas said the HDP, which has played a central role in peace talks, had visited Ocalan on the island prison of Imrali and would be applying to make another visit soon. | |
The peace process with Ocalan was launched by President Erdogan in 2012 in a bid to end a three-decade conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. |