Turkey’s first election gov’t comes with more firsts
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For the first time in Turkey’s history, a Kurdish problem-focused party takes part in a government. Three figures from two opposition parties, the HDP and the MHP, have taken the seats of EU Minister and Development Minister, as well as Deputy Prime Minister, in Davutoğlu’s interim government, approved by President Erdoğan. Turkey now also has a new Foreign Minister and a new deputy prime minister in charge of the economy, as well as the first female minister wearing an Islamic headscarf