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title: "Turkey’S Interim Cabinet Holds First Meeting"
date: "2015-09-02 08:34:01"
author: "DHA"
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# Turkey’S Interim Cabinet Holds First Meeting
\- The interim cabinet that will take Turkey to polls on Nov. 1 held its first meeting under the leadership of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Sept. 1.
Davutoğlu appointed the interim power-sharing cabinet on Aug. 28, including nationalist and pro-Kurdish opposition politicians.
The new cabinet consists of 12 members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), two members of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), one lawmaker from MHP, and 11 independents.
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) refused to participate in the 26-member interim cabinet, forcing Davutoğlu to fill ministries allocated to the opposition with independent figures.
Tuğrul Türkeş was the only MHP lawmaker to accept Prime Minister Davutoğlu’s offer for a seat in the interim government, breaking ranks with his party’s decision.
Davutoğlu was forced to form the temporary cabinet after his party failed to find a junior coalition partner following the loss of its parliamentary majority in June 7 election, which ended more than a decade of single-party AKP rule.