{"id":63649,"date":"2018-05-04T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63649"},"modified":"2018-05-04T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:06:42","slug":"turkey-opposition-names-party-leader-to-face-erdogan-for-june-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63649","title":{"rendered":"Turkey opposition names party leader to face Erdogan for June election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ankara, May 4 (TNS): <\/strong>Turkey&#8217;s main opposition party, the Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP), has announced its candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next month&#8217;s snap presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Muharrem Ince is staunchly secular and a fiery critic of Erdogan. He has been an MP since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP plans to ally for the first time with right-wing parties, in the hope of beating Mr Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erdogan&#8217;s conservative AK Party has a majority in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He called the snap election to cement his position with enhanced powers. Parliamentary elections will be held on the same day, 24 June.<\/p>\n<p>Secularists are fundamentally opposed to the AK Party&#8217;s agenda, seeing it as creeping Islamisation of the state.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: BBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, May 4 (TNS): Turkey&#8217;s main opposition party, the Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP), has announced its candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next month&#8217;s snap presidential election. Muharrem Ince is staunchly secular and a fiery critic of Erdogan. He has been an MP since 2002. The CHP plans to ally for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63651,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63649\/revisions\/63651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}