Via the BBC: Turkey’s Gul hints at presidency
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul says he has not ruled out reviving his presidential bid, days after his AK Party’s landslide election win.[...]
On Wednesday, Mr Gul said he remained a possible contender for the presidency.
“Nobody can place a political ban on others. It is out of the question that I should rule myself out as a candidate,” he said.
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However, he did not explicitly say whether he would run for president again.
“There is no need to rush things,” he said, adding that progress must be made “with great political maturity in the direction indicated by the results”.
And while there is a referendum scheduled for October that will decide whether or not the presidency becomes a popularly elected post, the next president will need to be chosen by the parliament, and will have to be chosen soon as the term of the previous president has expired. See Fruits and Votes for more details.
