Turkey's Erdogan announces snap election on Nov. 1

Updated: 2015-08-21 20:29

(Xinhua)

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ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced here on Friday that Turkey will hold a snap election on Nov. 1.

"I will take Turkey to election on Nov. 1," he told media after friday prayer in Istanbul.

"As a president, I know limits of my authority and I have to use it to the end," he added.

Erdogan will ask Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu early next week to form the temporary power-sharing government, senior officials said, after weeks of efforts to agree a coalition with opposition parties ahead of an Aug. 23 deadline failed.

Erdogan also indicated that the Supreme Election Committee made all preparations for the early elections.