ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday personally chaired the first meeting of the new Turkish cabinet.
The meeting at the president’s huge palace in Ankara came a day after incoming Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, an Erdogan loyalist, disclosed his new cabinet line-up with most key ministers keeping their jobs.
The Turkish constitution allows heads of state to chair the cabinet but this right was exercised extremely rarely by Erdogan’s predecessors before he was elected president in August 2014.
A presidential statement announced the start of the first meeting of Turkey’s 65th government.
