The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said his government will seek an early parliamentary election on either 24 June or 1 July in a bid to break the current political paralysis.
Mr. Erdogan also told a televised news conference his ruling AK Party, locked in a dispute with secularist opponents over its choice of presidential candidate, wanted the Turkish people, not parliament, to elect the country's president.
He said the centre-right, Islamist-rooted AK Party wanted to reduce the term of parliament to four years from the current five years.
Earlier a court in Turkey annulled last Friday's parliamentary vote to elect a new president.
The only candidate, the Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to win the required majority after a boycott by secularist opposition parties.
The parties, who accuse Mr Gul of a hidden Islamist agenda, challenged the legality of the vote.
