Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

It?s been a month since Turkey concluded parliamentary elections that took away the Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) 13 years of self-rule and instead obliged political parties to share power. 

In Turkey, there is a special category of reporters called the ?Ankara journalists.? They know all the Byzantine power struggles taking place in the capital, and make sense of the political cacophony that sometimes seems puzzling to outsiders.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) started to tilt towards following a bi-polar strategy in the coalition talks slated to start next week, if the parliament speakership council can be formed and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu is asked by the president to form the next government.

Speaking one month after the June 7 election, Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? said President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s delay in giving the mandate to form a government after such a long time had passed was ?not normal.? 

?It is not normal that the president has not given the mandate to form a government for such a long time.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should cease his delaying tactics and provide a mandate to form a government, according to Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Amid opposition parties? anger over a delayed start in negotiations to form a coalition government, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said the president will give the mandate to form the new government later this week.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has failed to give any party a mandate to attempt to form a coalition government, one month after general elections, while the newly elected parliamentary speaker?s office has also been stalling the coalition talks, the Republican People?s Party (CHP) has argued.

A pro-government Turkish newspaper has reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will code a simple computer game or program to encourage young software developers.

Daily Sabah reported on July 6 that Erdo?an ?prepared an important plan for Turkey to leap forward in the IT sector.? 

Celal Do?an, a senior politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has reportedly told President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during a private meeting that a potential coalition between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) would likely be labeled a "war cabinet."

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has finalized its preparation for coalition talks by drafting a roadmap to guide Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu during the first round of meetings with other party leaders, which will kick off this week.