Turkey's Erdogan names foreign minister Davutoglu as next PM


  • World
  • Friday, 22 Aug 2014

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends a meeting in Ankara August 20, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish president-elect Tayyip Erdogan named Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as his future prime minister on Thursday and vowed a power struggle against a U.S.-based cleric he accuses of plotting against him would continue.

Erdogan said Davutoglu's determination to battle the "parallel state", a term he uses for cleric Fethullah Gulen's influential network of followers, had been a key factor in his nomination as the next AK Party leader and prime minister.

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