New missile threats were launched by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Greece when speaking to the Parliamentary Group of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
"We didn't have a missile, and now that we built ours, the Greeks panicked," said the president of Turkey. "The newspapers write headlines: 'Turk are sending the Tayfun from Smyrna," he added.
"[The missile] has a range of 510 kilometres. It's not enough. We have to increase it to 1000 kilometres," he said and continued in an aggressive tone: "Calm down, behave well. We have no connection with Athens. We don't touch those who don't touch us."
Meanwhile, Erdoğan could dissolve the Turkish Parliament and call snap elections claimed the journalist Murat Yetkin.
According to the Turkish journalist Murat Yetkin, the country’s current parliament could be dissolved by the Turkish president, leading him to call a snap election as a result.
“Unless the opposition approves, it is arithmetically very difficult for Erdoğan to take an early election decision from the parliament. In this case, Erdoğan can dissolve the parliament and lead the country to snap elections within 60 days," said an article by Yetkin published in the Yetkin Report.
“This will not only be an admission of fears that Erdoğan won’t be able to win the election in the first round which is scheduled for June 18, but will also mean that Erdoğan will dissolve the parliament in order to obtain an electoral advantage," Yetkin continued.
Presidential and parliamentary elections must be held in Turkey at the latest, by June 18. AKP runs Turkey in an alliance with the MHP party. He faces dwindling public support amid the country’s economic crisis and an ongoing dispute with Greece. Together they hold 334 seats.
Hamza Dag, the vice-chairman of AKP, speaking on Channel 7, suggested that there were two possibilities facing the party. “One of them is the parliament’s taking a decision with the vote of 360 deputies in the 550-seat assembly, and the other is the president’s dissolving the parliament”.
Yetkin said he believes the Turkish president is contemplating an early election in either April or May. This is because the original date of June 18 clashes with the Hadj season and the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
This season begins on June 26 but pilgrims normally set out on their trip to Saudi Arabia in mid-June the journalist pointed out. “We can assume that AKP voters will be the majority of those who will travel to Mecca”, he said.
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