{"id":3356,"date":"2018-04-18T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2018-04-18T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:23:25","slug":"erdogan-announces-date-for-snap-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/18\/erdogan-announces-date-for-snap-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"ERDOGAN ANNOUNCES DATE FOR SNAP ELECTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1388\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1-560x350.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1-260x162.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/11\/ERDOGAN1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Daily Sabah<\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan 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 Bah\u00e7eli at the presidential complex, a day after the latter called for snap elections to be held in August.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which started at 1:30 p.m. local time (1030GMT), came after Bah\u00e7eli&#8217;s stunning statement Tuesday urging the government not to wait for the scheduled date of Nov. 3, 2019, to hold presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing reporters in a news conference at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Erdo\u011fan said that the recent developments in Turkey &#8212; including the cross-border counter-terror operations in Iraq and Syria, and the crisis in neighboring countries &#8212; have made it necessary for the country to overcome uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/elections\/2018\/04\/18\/erdogan-announces-date-for-snap-polls-as-june-24-following-meeting-with-mhp-chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Daily Sabah President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan 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 Bah\u00e7eli at the presidential complex, a day after the latter called for snap elections to be held in August. 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