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By Ece Toksabay and Asli Kandemir ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party will exhaust all options in trying to form a new government before an early election is considered, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday, and he appeared to warn President Tayyip Erdogan against meddling. In an interview with state broadcaster TRT, Davutoglu said Erdogan would not be involved in coalition negotiations after the AKP lost its parliamentary majority in a weekend election, and that he would only intervene in the event of a crisis. Sunday's election ended more than a decade of single-party rule in the NATO member and EU candidate nation, dealing a blow to Erdogan's ambitions for a powerful U.S.-style presidency and plunging it into political uncertainty not seen since the 1990s.

 

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