Turkey PM launches coalition talks

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AFP Ankara
Last Updated : Jul 13 2015 | 10:32 PM IST
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu began coalition talks today with the second-placed CHP party after last month's election which saw his ruling party lose its overall majority.
Davutoglu's Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to secure enough votes in the June 7 election to form a government alone, for the first time since it came to power in 2002.
The AKP has 258 seats in the new parliament, the Republican People's Party (CHP) 132, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) hold 80 apiece.
Davutoglu met today with CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu but no agreement is expected this week during the Eid feast marking the end of holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
"This is not a coalition negotiation but preliminary talks for the sides to understand each other," Davutoglu told reporters in Ankara after a more than one-and-a-half hour meeting with Kilicdaroglu.
He hailed "very sincere and friendly" talks with the CHP team.
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First Published: Jul 13 2015 | 10:32 PM IST

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