{"id":58194,"date":"2016-05-19T12:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58194"},"modified":"2016-05-19T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:14:42","slug":"binali-yildirim-named-as-sole-candidate-for-leadership-of-ak-party-58194-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/binali-yildirim-named-as-sole-candidate-for-leadership-of-ak-party-58194-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Binali Yildirim named as sole candidate for leadership of AK Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Turkey&#8217;s ruling AK Party announces Binali Yildirim as candidate for party chairman and PM.<\/h1>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party on Thursday announced its candidate to assume the chairmanship \u2013 and likely, the country\u2019s premiership: Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communications Binali Yildirim.<\/p>\n<p>AK Party Deputy Chairman and spokesperson Omer Celik made the announcement in Ankara, hailing \u201cour esteemed friend\u201d Yildirim and saying he had been chosen by a \u201chuge consensus&#8221; within the party.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced he would not stand again for the party chairmanship, a role he currently holds alongside the premiership, meaning he will also be replaced as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came hours after the party&#8217;s highest decision-making body, the Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK), gathered at 11.00 a.m. local time (08.00GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The chosen candidate is to be elected in an extraordinary congress on Sunday. He is expected to become the country&#8217;s next prime minister.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n<p>Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s ruling AK Party announces Binali Yildirim as candidate for party chairman and PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,174],"tags":[11843,17657,77182,77185],"class_list":["post-58194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","tag-ak-party","tag-binali-yildirim","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}