Turkey’s 2015 post-election process has been largely overshadowed by a dual security threat: Ankara’s offensive against ISIS militants along its border and escalated violence with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a designated Kurdish terrorist organization in Turkey. None of the other parties have such a chance.” Why? Because if we win 18 more deputies in parliament, we have a single-party government. Now, with an impending election, Davutoǧlu has begun to unabashedly recant his earlier statement claiming, “I’ll say it openly, AK Party will benefit the most from an early election. Shortly after the June 7 election, Davutoǧlu asserted that snap elections would be “disrespectful to the peoples’ will,” and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) would be “open to any scenarios”-ostensibly to maintain an image of willingness and compromise.
Although the exact date is still unknown, last week Turkey’s high election board and President Erdoğan proposed holding elections on November 1 while others speculate November 22 to be more likely.
The August 23 deadline to form a coalition government has passed and Turkey now has no choice but to head to the polls within 90 days. Erdogan Seeks to Reclaim Power in Early Elections | Bipartisan Policy Center Skip to main content Bipartisan Policy Center logoĪfter a prolonged and unusually drawn-out post-election process, acting Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoǧlu announced last Tuesday that he had exhausted all options for building a coalition government and relinquished the mandate back to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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