Top Turk Business Group Urges General Elections

Turkey's leading business forum called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections to help safeguard democracy.

Turkey's leading business forum called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections to help safeguard democracy amid a row between the government and powerful army generals over a presidential election.

"To preserve the inseparable principles of democracy and secularism, an early general election is indispensable," Turkish television channels quoted a TUSIAD statement as saying.

NTV also quoted the TUSIAD statement as criticising the army's threat to intervene in the presidential election in defence of Turkey's secular order.