Coalition forms to unseat ruling party
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Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party and the small Democratic Left Party agreed to contest July’s election together, in a move they hope will help unseat the Islamist-rooted government.
The former has 151 seats in the outgoing parliament, second only to the ruling center-right Justice and Development Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The leftist party has no deputies in parliament now.
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