Bahceli criticizes Erdogan's foreign minister pick

Speaking at his party's parliamentary group meeting yesterday, opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of his chief foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu as foreign minister. Claiming that Cabinet appointments from outside Parliament violate the "national will," he said, "Most notable in the Cabinet reshuffle is that the ruling party, which holds the majority of seats in Parliament, was unable to find any other competent candidate for the post among its 338 deputies." He added that despite his criticisms, he respects Davutoglu as a scholar.