{"id":3446,"date":"2018-04-28T21:51:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2018-04-28T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T21:51:57","slug":"former-turkish-president-gul-will-not-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/28\/former-turkish-president-gul-will-not-run-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER TURKISH PRESIDENT GUL WILL NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3447\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-560x366.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-260x170.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/Abdullah_Gul.jpg 1998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Hurriyet Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Former Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl on April 28 ruled out running for the presidency in June, dousing fevered speculation he would challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no longer the question of my candidacy,&#8221; G\u00fcl told reporters, blaming a lack of &#8220;wide consensus&#8221; between opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan announced early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24 instead of November 3, 2019 and rumours were rife that G\u00fcl would run against him. G\u00fcl was president between 2007 and 2014 during Erdo\u011fan\u2019s time as premier.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan and G\u00fcl founded AKP with others in 2001. After G\u00fcl stepped down in 2014, Erdo\u011fan was elected as president. G\u00fcl said the leader of the Saadet (Felicity) Party, Temel Karamollao\u011flu, had independently sought to rally supporters behind the former President. &#8220;I had said that if there was a wide consensus, I would not shy away from doing my bit,&#8221; G\u00fcl said.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcl has abstained from politics after 2014, a point which he stressed on April 28. &#8220;We are too busy with reciprocal personal attacks and political manoeuvring rather than what is good for Turkey&#8230; Turkey unfortunately does not have a positive agenda. In this environment, we are heading for elections,&#8221; G\u00fcl said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hurriyet Daily News Former Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl on April 28 ruled out running for the presidency in June, dousing fevered speculation he would challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. &#8220;There is no longer the question of my candidacy,&#8221; G\u00fcl told reporters, blaming a lack of &#8220;wide consensus&#8221; between opposition parties. Erdo\u011fan announced early presidential&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/28\/former-turkish-president-gul-will-not-run-for-president\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FORMER TURKISH PRESIDENT GUL WILL NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1851],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-abdullah-gul","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}