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Pro-gov’t journalist claims Erdoğan to become caliph if presidential system adopted

A journalist from the staunchly pro-government Yeni Akit daily has suggested that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be the new caliph of the Muslim world and host representatives of Muslim countries at his palace if Turkey adopts a presidential system.






"If Tayyip Erdoğan switches to a presidential system, he is likely to appoint advisors to him from Muslim countries located in regions that are under the caliphate and he will open representative offices of all of them in 1,005 rooms of Beştepe [presidential palace],” Yeni Akit columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak says in a speech published by the independent news website T24 on Saturday. Dilipak's statements were reportedly from a speech he delivered in Toronto last week as part of the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) election campaign. His remarks came after his comments that caliphate was not completely abolished in 1924, but it can be resurrected by Parliament.
Caliph, "successor" in English, is a word used to describe the political leader of the global community of Muslims who claims succession from Prophet Muhammad.
Dilipak's Yeni Akit earlier voiced similar claims in an article which argued that Erdoğan is a caliph and, along with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, waiting for the appearance of Mahdi, the Messiah.
The article asserted that Mahdi will take an active role in the war in Syria and after the defeat of the armies of the Western powers in that country, he will head for Jerusalem to conquer the city with the help of the caliph. Moreover, the article claimed that the presidential palace known as "Ak Saray" was constructed to govern the provinces that will be occupied by Mahdi's army. The article also stated that Erdoğan and Davutoğlu want to be martyred fighting against enemies.
Turkey has a parliamentary system of governance in which the head of government is the prime minister while the president is mostly a ceremonial figure. President Erdoğan has long been expressing his ambitions to transform Turkey into a presidential system in which he will hold the powers of both head of state and head of government.
In order to realize his dream, Erdoğan needs a constitutional change, which can only be carried out by the AK Party if it holds 400 of the 550 seats in Parliament, as the opposition parties do not approve of such a change.
Erdoğan's ambitions were disrupted after the June 7 election, when the AK Party could not secure enough seats in Parliament to both form a government alone and to change the Constitution. With Erdoğan's alleged meddling in efforts to form a coalition government after the election, Turkey is heading for a snap election on Nov. 1, during which the AK Party will one more time try to win 400 seats in Parliament.