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Two Kurdish Ministers Resign from Turkey's Interim Government
[ALMANAR.LB] Two ministers from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) resigned from the interim government at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the private channel NTV said. EU Affairs Minister Ali Haydar Konca and Development Minister Muslum Dogan had joined the caretaker government ahead of snap elections due on November 1 -- the first time in Turkish history that representatives of a pro-Kurdish party had taken seats in the government. According to a statement from the prime minister's office quoted by NTV, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accepted their resignation, and neither will be immediately replaced in his cabinet. NTV said the ministers -- vocal critics of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) since they were appointed last month -- resigned over a debate on terrorism at the weekly cabinet meeting in Ankara. Posted by: Fred 2015-09-23 |
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