Inauguration day for Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish president, re-elected Sunday at the head of the country, is sworn in Saturday, June 3 in Ankara for a new five-year term and will announce the composition of his government in the process.

In addition to about twenty heads of state, according to the pro-government press, the presence of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, confirmed by the Alliance, will shed particular light on the festivities.

Turkey, which has maintained its veto on Sweden's entry into the Atlantic Alliance for 13 months, is being courted to agree to lift it by the time of the organization's summit in Vilnius in July.

"Clear message to our Swedish friends! Respect your commitments (...) and take concrete measures in the fight against terrorism. The rest will follow," current Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted late Thursday.

Despite an amended constitution and a new anti-terrorism law, Ankara still accuses Sweden of sheltering Kurdish refugees whom it describes as "terrorists".

Turning around the economy in crisis

Another burning issue, the list of ministers that will be announced in the evening, after the festivities, should give an idea of the orientations adopted by the head of state to recover the economy in crisis.

For this arduous task, the name of a recognized expert, Mehmet Simsek, has been circulating insistently for several days.

Former Finance Minister (2009-2015) then Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy (until 2018), Mehmet Simsek, 56, former Merrill Lynch economist, would be responsible for restoring some orthodoxy in order to restore investor confidence.

In addition to inflation above 40%, encouraged by the steady decline in interest rates, the national currency was in free fall, despite billions of dollars swallowed up during the campaign to delay its sinking.

Conservatives in good place

According to Turkish media, twenty heads of state and forty-five foreign ministers will attend the ceremonies, which will end with a dinner at the gigantic presidential palace built by the head of state on a hill away from the center of the capital.

Among them were Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Erdogan's close ally, and the Prime Ministers of Hungary, Viktor Orban, and Qatar, Mohammed bin Abderrahman al-Thani, who were among the first to congratulate him on his re-election after twenty years in power. Viktor Orban is also reluctant to open NATO's doors to Sweden.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, forced for the first time to a second round, obtained 52.18% of the vote against 47.82% for his opponent, the Social Democrat Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, according to official results published Thursday, at the end of a bitter campaign that leaves the country polarized between the two camps.

The parliament, elected on May 14 at the same time as the first round of the presidential election, took up residence Friday in Ankara: the president's AKP party and its allies hold the majority of the 600 seats.

The conservatives sit prominently, both on the side of the government (with the MHP, ultranationalist) and the opposition, with the Good Party, ally of circumstance for the presidential election to Kemal Kiliçdaroglu.

With AFP

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