The staff castling is sealed: Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now officially President of Turkey. In the afternoon he will appoint his successor Davutoglu head of government. The opposition boycotted his swearing.

In Turkey, the former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been sworn in as the new president. The Islamic conservative politicians took the oath at an official ceremony in front of the parliament in the capital, Ankara.

The deputies of the main opposition party CHP left the Chamber before the swearing-in protest. In their view, Erdogan had his post as Prime Minister immediately after the victory must resign at the presidential election and not until two weeks later. Representatives of the opposition party MHP refused Erdogan to applause.

Erdogan wants to appoint the afternoon the previous Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as the new prime minister and commission to form a government. Davutoglu has on Wednesday by the Party for Justice and Development (AKP) as the new party leader and now a nominee for the office of Government. His cabinet will be finalized by Friday.

Oath of office in Parliament: Change from democracy to a presidential

With the re-allocation at the office personnel castling at the top of the Turkish ruling party AKP is sealed before the parliamentary election in 2015.

Erdogan was elected in the first direct election of a head of state in Turkey president and successor to his party colleague Abdullah Gul on August 10, who has held the presidency since 2007. His positions as party and Prime Minister Erdogan had to resign in order to move to the head of state may.

He is now the twelfth president in the country’s modern history and will provide the hitherto largely representative office with more influence: The 60-year-old aims to change from a parliamentary democracy to a presidential system with greater powers for the head of state. The necessary constitutional amendment to enforce the ACP after the election in June 2015 – with then-developed parliamentary majority. The Turkish opposition fears a systematic erosion of separation of powers.

Erdogan’s five-year mandate as president may be renewed once. According to the current majority position he may therefore have good chances to be at the head of state until 2024.

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