MHP leader mocks CHP offer, lines up conditions for AKP coalition

The MHP leader sets conditions for a possible coalition government with AKP, as he says President Erdo?an should leave a newly built palace Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has personally mocked a suggestion by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, who offered him the prime minister's seat in a possible coalition government, also lining up conditions to found a government with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

"Will the president remain in a constitutional framework?" Bahçeli asked in an interview published June 20 on daily Sözcü, referring to the involvement of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in politics, as he was speaking on conditions to found an AKP-CHP government. 

The coalition talks have already heated up before the new deputies have not sworn in after the June 7 elections, at which the AKP lost its parliamentary majority, but netted some 40.9 percent of the votes. 

The MHP leader also said Erdo?an should move from the newly built presidential palace to Çankaya, the traditional presidential building before the more-than 1,000 room new palace was erected in Ankara.

An end to the ongoing talks to find a peaceful solution to the lingering Kurdish problem, dubbed as the "resolution process," is another condition for Bahçeli, who has been critical about the process that also involves the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Öcalan. 

Bahçeli also insists on the retrial for the four former ministers, who were acquitted both at court and at the parliament after being accused in a large graft probe launched on Dec. 17, 2013. The illegal wiretappings, which went viral simultaneously...