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Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit removed his longstanding opposition to early elections, with the coalition announcing on July 16th that they had agreed to hold polls on November 3rd.
The Turkish government was reeling after a key member in the fractious three-party coalition quit on July 8th, followed by a mass defection of over 30 deputies from Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit’s Democratic Left Party (DSP).
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit emerged from a much-anticipated medical check on June 26th insisting that a slew of nagging ailments would not keep him from returning to work in a few weeks time.
Turkey's banking watchdog (BDDK) on June 19th took control of the country's seventh largest bank, Pamukbank, driving the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) into a sharp decline.
The Turkish military, long accustomed to the domestic limelight, took on new challenges in the global arena as it assumed control of the 4650-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan last week.
Worries over the viability of the shaky three-party coalition have sent Turkish markets roiling further, as political infighting over a series of European Union-mandated reforms continues to raise the spectre of early elections.

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