Turkey's ruling AK Party hopes to make constitutional
changes that could give President Tayyip Erdogan more power with
the support of the nationalist opposition party, Prime Minister
Binali Yildirim said on Friday.
Yildirim met with the chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party
(MHP), Devlet Bahceli, on Thursday to discuss changing the
constitution, after which Bahceli made comments on Twitter
indicating his party may support constitutional changes that could
give Erdogan the stronger presidency he has long sought.
"MHP leader Mr Bahceli has once again put the future of the
nation first with foresight and patriotism, putting aside political
goals, and we will carry out the constitutional change with the
MHP," Yildirim said in a speech at a ceremony in the Black Sea town
of Rize, broadcast live on television.