"The new cabinet line-up Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim seeks to meet Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wants," pointed out the political analyst.
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The political analyst, Rahmatollah Sharif in an interview with Taqrib News Agency (TNA) beckoned to the new cabinet line-up Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has unveiled, which had received the endorsement of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, stressing, "the new cabinet line-up seeks to meet Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wants".
"Doubtless, the main reason behind offering the new cabinet line-up was meeting the want of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; to clarify the point, we should remind that based on the Turkey constitution and before the recent presidential election mounted in the country, the president of Turkey had been elected through parliament members' votes."
"That means in different rounds, the polling might have been held so that two third of members cast their votes in favor of one of hopefuls," stressed the political commentator.
"Given that, Turkish President had not enjoyed that much power; and his position limited to introducing prime ministers and signing rules," said the political analyst adding, "in point of fact the president played a minor role in managing the country's affairs."
Rahmatollah Sharif went on to highlight, "His role was beyond parties and he did interfere in the internal political and administrative affairs acting, in point of fact, as a father within the family."
"With offering the new article based on which president should be appointed through direct vote of people to the constituent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan garnered the votes and elected as the president," pointed out the political analyst.
"He was elected through peoples' direct vote, winning presidency with roughly 52 percent," highlighted Rahmatollah Sharif.
"Given the he enjoyed roles in managing affairs, appointing and dismissing ministers, forwarding economic process, inside and foreign affairs ," pointed out the political commentator stressing Recep Tayyip Erdogan also had made decision in security and military affairs.
He also made it a practice to changes the country’s constitution aimed at expanding presidential powers to have 400 members out of 550 seats in the legislature which did not happen.
As a result of his interferences, the 60-year-old will replace Ahmet Davutoglu who stepped down this month after bitter power struggle with Erdogan. The resignation exposed a rift between Davutoglu and Erdogan over the latter’s attempts to expand his power.
President Tayyip Erdogan wants Turkey to introduce a full presidential system, something Yildirim has vowed to support. Yildirim said Erdogan was carrying out his political responsibilities as head of state, rejecting suggestions that he was meddling in government affairs.
With this connection and due to the good relation between Erdogan and Yildirim, Rahmatollah Sharif underscored, "Based on these changes, it can be seen that Prime minister will not be the most powerful and highest executive officails."
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ and Interior Minister Efkan Ala, all from the administration of former PM Ahmed Davutoglu, were reinstated in their positions.
According to Rahmatollah Sharif, Yildirim, who has never stepped out of line with the president on a policy issue, also worked as head of the Istanbul ferry company while Erdogan was mayor of the city in the second half of the 1990s.
Yildirim vowed to continue the fight against Kurdish, saying the change in government leadership would not alter the struggle against terror groups.
Tensions have been on the rise between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants over the military’s campaign in several regions with a majority Kurdish population in the past few months, following a number of deadly bombing attacks in the country last year.
Both Erdogan and Yildirim are strongly opposed to resuming talks with PKK, which has claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks across Turkey since a two-year-long ceasefire collapsed in 2015.
