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| Turkey PM Davutoglu abandons MHP coalition bid | Turkey PM Davutoglu abandons MHP coalition bid |
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| Turkey's prime minister says he has exhausted all options to form a coalition government after talks with the nationalist MHP failed, pushing the country closer to fresh elections. | Turkey's prime minister says he has exhausted all options to form a coalition government after talks with the nationalist MHP failed, pushing the country closer to fresh elections. |
| Ahmet Davutoglu said he would return the mandate to the president. | Ahmet Davutoglu said he would return the mandate to the president. |
| The main opposition CHP said it should now be given the mandate to form a new government. | The main opposition CHP said it should now be given the mandate to form a new government. |
| The political uncertainty comes amid rising violence in Turkey and neighbouring Iraq and Syria. | The political uncertainty comes amid rising violence in Turkey and neighbouring Iraq and Syria. |
| Mr Davutoglu's AK Party lost its 12-year majority rule in Turkey in elections in June largely because of the success of the pro-Kurdish HDP. | Mr Davutoglu's AK Party lost its 12-year majority rule in Turkey in elections in June largely because of the success of the pro-Kurdish HDP. |
| The AKP's coalition talks with the CHP failed last week. | The AKP's coalition talks with the CHP failed last week. |
| 'No ground' | |
| Speaking after negotiations with Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli on Monday, the prime minister said: "I believe that I shared every possible option with the opposition parties. | |
| "Today we discussed four options but there is no ground to take new steps. | |
| "I will meet the president and I will return the mandate if necessary after liaising with him." | |
| Although Mr Davutoglu's party secured 41% in the 7 June election, it had to seek support from a rival party to form a coalition, but failed to find agreement with the CHP on foreign policy and education matters. | |
| Correspondents say the CHP is now unlikely to secure the support it needs from both the MHP and the HDP to form a coalition of its own, making fresh elections a more possible outcome. | |
| Latest opinion polls suggest the AKP has increased its support in recent weeks amid heightened tensions in the region. | |
| Turkish forces have carried out attacks on militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and have bombed Kurdish PKK camps mainly in northern Iraq. | |
| President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for many years Turkey's AKP prime minister, has accused the HDP of being the Kurdish rebels' political wing. | |
| Turkey's uneasy two-year ceasefire with the PKK fell apart last month, after a suicide bomb blamed on IS killed 32 young activists in the largely Kurdish city of Suruc, close to the Syrian border. |