Turkey's former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, once President Tayyip Erdogan's closest ally, said on Friday he resigned from the ruling AK Party and again criticized its ability to govern, though he did not immediately launch a new party as expected.
"The AK Party, which has fallen under the control of a small team, no longer has the ability to be a solution to our country's problems," Davutoglu told a press conference in Ankara.
"It is evident that there is no internal evaluation, that the channels for...negotiations are closed, and that there is no possibility of an internal change," he added.