ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey’s prime minister on Monday kicked off a first round of talks on forming a coalition government by meeting members of Turkey’s secularist party — the main rival to his ruling Islamic-rooted party.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Kemal Kilicdaroglu and other leaders of the Republican People’s Party to test the waters for a possible “grand coalition” between the two parties, which together would have an unassailable majority but have deep-seated rivalries.
