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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Is fate of Kurdish issue tied to Erdogan's future? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Is fate of Kurdish issue tied to Erdogan's future?

Despite sending strong signals that he intends to run for the Turkish presidency in August, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again asserted that he remains undecided. He gathered his party’s lawmakers on April 16 to discuss the matter and announced, “I have not made my decision yet.” He added, “And I don’t approve of announcing names [for the presidential bid] at this point. There will be no chaos in the party if I decide to run or choose to stay [as the prime minister]. The most important thing is the institutional structure of our party.”

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