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Sunday, May 29, 2016
New Turkish PM survives confidence vote
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkey’s new government led by a staunch ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has easily passed a confidence vote in the country’s parliament.
Binali Yildirim, who replaced Ahmet Davutoglu as prime minister last week, was backed by 315 parliamentarians while 138 voted against, parliament speaker Ismail Kahraman says.
Yildirim describes his new administration as “the government of 79 million Turks” in a short speech to parliament following the vote, promising to “take democracy even further.”
— AFP
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