Turkey’s AK Party Weighs CHP Coalition to Avoid Deadlock
- MHP isn't willing to make concessions to join coalition
- Cost of taking country to third election `too high': analyst
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Turkey’s AK Party is weighing a possible coalition with the country’s biggest opposition party should next month’s election lead to another hung parliament, a move that may restore a measure of stability to a country swept by violence and political turmoil.
AKP is warming to the idea of allying with the secularist CHP because its preferred choice, the nationalist MHP, isn’t willing to give up demands to limit President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers and revive a corruption probe of members of his inner circle, party officials said. Four CHP officials said their leaders are willing to show flexibility on key issues to join the government. Officials from the two groups spoke on condition of anonymity, citing private deliberations.