TURKEY : Islamist Tapped to Form New Coalition
From Times Wire Reports
Turkey’s president asked the country’s Islamist leader to try to form a new coalition after months of political gridlock in the overwhelmingly Muslim but secular nation. But political analysts said Islamist leader Necmettin Erbakan’s chances of doing so appeared slim. Erbakan, whose party has the largest number of seats in the assembly but lacks an overall majority, will struggle to find coalition partners from among the five other parliamentary groups, all of them secularist.
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