"I said before that the presidential elections would be the
starting gun for the 2015 (general) elections," Erdogan told a
meeting of AK Party provincial leaders in a speech broadcast on
Turkish television.
"Our target should be to acquire at least a majority to
establish the new constitution. I don't believe that you will
compromise on this," he said.
(Reporting Gulsen Solaker and Ece Toksabay, editing by John
Stonestreet; Writing by Nick Tattersall)
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