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Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, a senior member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has announced that he will step down from Turkey’s ruling party.

Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, a senior member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has announced that he will step down from Turkey’s ruling party.

Now, it is the turn of “Gülenists” to be eliminated from the bureaucracy and to be deprived of any social and economic power, on the way to “the second one-party period” in Turkey.

Any return by President Abdullah Gül to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as party chairman will have to wait at least 10 months, Turkey’s prime minister has said, strongly implying that he does not regard his longtime friend as a potential premier if he is elected president next month.

President Abdullah Gül has denied media reports that he was unhappy with the situation in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and was considering taking a different path in his post-presidency period.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) will come to a fork on the road if its leader Erdoğan is voted the president in the elections.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may have been nominated for the presidency, but the question of who will lead the Justice and Development Party (AKP) after him still remains uncertain.

After the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) nominated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as its candidate for the presidential elections, he gave a speech and promised the beginning of “a new epoch” for Turkey.

President Abdullah Gül would not reject the position of prime minister if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) appoints him under the possible presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the Aug. 10 elections, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has said.

There is no surprise in the announcement by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) that its candidate for the Aug. 10 presidential elections is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The surprise would have been if he wasn’t.