(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced that his Justice and Development (AK) Party's negotiations with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have ended without an agreement to form a coalition government.
Davutoglu addressed reporters at a press conference at the AK Party headquarters in Ankara on Monday following negotiations with MHP leader Devlet Bahceli.
"However, MHP leader Devlet Bahceli said [MHP] would not support any coalition government, short-term reform government, minority government or early election," Davutoglu said.
According to Turkey's news agency (Anadolu), the meeting comes after talks between Davutoglu's AK Party and the second-placed Republican People's Party (CHP) ended without an agreement last week.
The last coalition talks in Turkey were made 16 years ago, when the Democratic Left Party (DSP) of late premier Bulent Ecevit failed to win the majority in the general election on April 18, 1999.
Since 2002, the AK Party won three general elections to continue a single-party rule for well over a decade, which ended after the June 7 elections this year produced no majority government.
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