Turkey's main opposition floats idea of 'rotating' premiership

Selahattin Demirtas (2nd R), co-chairman of the Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), cheers with his party's members during a gathering to celebrate the party's victory during the parliamentary election, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 8, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's main secularist opposition suggested rotating the post of prime minister with a nationalist party on Friday, in an effort to win support for a coalition government excluding the ruling AK Party.

The AKP lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a June 7 election, dealing a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions of amassing greater power and leaving the party he founded in need of a junior coalition partner.