Sourced: Daily Sabah
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday announced that Turkey will have snap parliamentary and presidential elections on June 24, 2018, after a meeting with opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chairman Devlet Bahçeli at the presidential complex, a day after the latter called for snap elections to be held in August.
The meeting, which started at 1:30 p.m. local time (1030GMT), came after Bahçeli’s stunning statement Tuesday urging the government not to wait for the scheduled date of Nov. 3, 2019, to hold presidential and parliamentary elections.
Addressing reporters in a news conference at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Erdoğan said that the recent developments in Turkey — including the cross-border counter-terror operations in Iraq and Syria, and the crisis in neighboring countries — have made it necessary for the country to overcome uncertainty.
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