The ruling party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), announced that it will elect a new prime minister to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the end of August.
The new prime minister will be elected at the AKP congress on August 27, and he will also be the new leader of the party.
According to the Turkish constitution, the president must cut ties with political parties once he is elected.
At today's AKP meeting, no specific name was mentioned when discussing the new prime minister, AKP spokesman Husein Çelik said, AP reported.
According to the election commission's data published today, Erdogan won the first round convincingly on Sunday with 51,79 percent of the votes. Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu got 38,44 percent, and the young Kurdish politician Selahitin Demirtas got 9,76 percent of the votes.
Voter turnout was 74,13 percent, which is a relatively low figure for Turkey, where voting is mandatory.
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