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Ahmet Davutoglu, here in Brussels on March 8, 2016. REUTERS / Yves Herman

In Turkey, nothing goes more in the AKP, the party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After the resignation in July of one of its founders, former minister Ali Babacan, the presidential formation is preparing to exclude four members, not least. Among them, Ahmet Davutoglu, head of government from 2014 to 2016. In recent months, the latter multiplied the critical positions on the AKP and its leader.

With our correspondent in Istanbul, Anne Andlauer

This is a sign - one more - of the cracks that are going through the presidential party in Turkey lately. After a meeting that lasted more than four hours, the political bureau of the AKP initiated an exclusion procedure against three former deputies and a former prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu.

The news was expected: last weekend, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is also AKP leader, promised to dismiss those who " are still members on paper, but have moved away from our hearts and minds. our way . He had not mentioned any names, but the eyes had turned to Ahmet Davutoglu, who denounced for several months the political management of the current president, his refusal of the slightest criticism and his attacks on the rule of law.

By excluding, as he is preparing to do, four figures of the slingshot that is shaking his ranks, the AKP spares the affront of a new resignation. This summer, former Economy Minister Ali Babacan left the ship to form a new party by the end of the year. Most commentators lend Ahmet Davutoglu similar intentions.