Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, whose post has been abolished under Turkey’s new system that concentrates powers under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was the last holder of an office that existed throughout the modern republic and dates back to the Ottoman Empire. Yildirim, a loyal servant of Erdogan since the 1990s, had held no rancor over the disappearance of the office he has held for two years and campaigned with gusto for a Yes in the April 2017 referendum on the new presidential system.
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