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  • 13:26

    Turkey PM, Opposition Head to Hold Key Coalition Talks

    Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu will meet the main opposition leader Thursday for decisive talks that will likely determine if the country forges a coalition government or heads to snap polls, AFP reports.

    Turkey has been without a full time government since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its overall majority in June 7 legislative elections for the first time since taking power in 2002.

    The political impasse comes as Ankara wages one of its biggest security operations in years - a cross-border offensive against "Islamic State" (ISIS) terrorists in Syria, and an offensive targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey.