|
Gul 'frozen out of running' for Turkey PM
[The Nation (Pak)] Turkey's outgoing President Abdullah Gul is not being considered as a possible successor to Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... as prime minister, a senior ruling party official said Sunday. Erdogan is set to be sworn in as president on August 28 after his first-round election victory, and some observers had seen his longtime ally Gul as a possible replacement as prime minister. But amid speculation of a growing rift between Gul and Erdogan, the deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Mehmet Ali Sahin, said the outgoing president had no chance of becoming premier. "After his term expires Abdullah Bey will not be able to become prime minister... because he is not a member of parliament," Sahin said, using a traditional Turkish form of address. Reports on Saturday said the AKP strongly favoured Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, an Erdogan loyalist, becoming the new prime minister. Posted by: Fred 2014-08-19 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=398079 |