Turkey's ruling AK party has unanimously elected Transport Minister Binali Yildirim as the new party leader.
ADVERTISEMENTTurkey’s ruling AK party has unanimously elected Transport Minister Binali Yildirim as the new party leader.
Binali Yildirim becomes new chairman of Turkey's governing AK Partyhttps://t.co/YunoxYusJdpic.twitter.com/RtgXH2Y1g5
— TRT World (
trtworld) <a href="https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/734391434707652608">May 22, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b></b>His validation means he now becomes the country's incoming prime minister replacing Ahmet Davutoglu. <b></b>An Ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Yildirim will now push through wider reaching powers for the presidency. <b></b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Erdogan's ally, Binali Yildirim (below left), will be Turkey's new prime minister<a href="https://t.co/ifZZWk7u3j">https://t.co/ifZZWk7u3j</a> <a href="https://t.co/hZoBPfMPd5">pic.twitter.com/hZoBPfMPd5</a></p>— Financial Times (FT) May 19, 2016
“The most important thing we have to do now is to legalise the current political situation and end this confusion. A new constitution and the presidential system is the way to do that.” > New Turkish PM backs constitution to strengthen Erdogan https://t.co/wOLTmnkJAJpic.twitter.com/vYyeHImSv9
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 22, 2016
Critics fear that Erdoğan is simply furthering his own ambitions.