Turkish Press Review

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Tuesday's dailies covered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks on creating a presidential system in Turkey, during his visit to the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Monday.



SABAH "ed Erdogan as saying: "It will be a native presidential system," referring to an ongoing debate about whether the country needs an executive head of state.



The newspaper reported that Erdogan said: "The parliamentary system has almost choked us. We have to move ahead of contemporary civilization."



"'We have talked about presidency,'" said AKSAM, "ing Erdogan's speech where he said Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu asked his opinion about writing a draft election manifesto for the ruling Justice and Development Party.



The newspaper added that the Turkish PM had penned the manifesto himself and explained in detail the presidency system.



Turkish newspapers also covered the main opposition Republican People's Party's internal primary election results.



"The power of the grassroots," was HURRIYET's headline.



The daily reported that the primaries were conducted in 41 provinces across Turkey and that 60 percent of 750,000-strong party membership cast their votes.



HURRIYET said that the CHP grassroots had delivered a message "to look at the future with confidence, we want to rise to power with youngsters," as younger members topped the lists of chosen parliamentary candidates.



In foreign news a VATAN headline reads: "The last 24 hours," referring to ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries.



The daily said that Tuesday was the last day of the 18-month negotiations to reach an agreement but that hopes were high at the talks in Switzerland.



The six-nation group – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council; the U.S., U.K., China, France, Russia, plus Germany – claim that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and want its program curbed in return for the lifting of sanctions.



In economic news, DUNYA reported that Turkey's economic confidence index dropped by 15.4 percent in March. The daily claimed that the government was planning to overhaul incentive legislation two months ahead of June elections.



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