ANKARA - Turkey lurched towards a new political crisis yesterday as talks to form an unlikely alliance between Islamists and the former prime minister, Ms Tansu filler's conservatives looked set to collapse.
Turkish media quoted one of Ms filler's True Path party members of parliament, Mr Ali Sonmez, as saying the planned coalition was "finished". It also reported that four of her party colleagues would resign and join the right wing Motherland Party of her bitter rival Mr Mesut Yilmaz, thus making it more powerful than True Path.
