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Turkey to Hold Snap Elections on June 24
[AAWSAT] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
 called on Wednesday for snap elections for June 24 in a move aimed at accelerating the transition to a new presidential system.

The announcement upended the political timetable in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
, which had been set to vote in simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections on November 3, 2019.

Erdogan made the announcement in an address at his presidential palace after meeting Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chief Devlet Bahceli who the day earlier had urged early elections.

"As a result of consultations with Mr. Bahceli, we decided to hold elections on June 24, 2018, a Sunday," said Erdogan.

Bahceli stunned Ottoman Turkish political observers on Tuesday when he urged the government not to wait for November 2019 to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections, suggesting the polls be held on August 26, 2018.

The elections are especially significant as afterwards a new executive presidency -- agreed in a 2017 referendum and denounced by critics as giving the president authoritarian powers -- will come into force.

Posted by: Fred 2018-04-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=512716