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Elections to be held in November, incl Ecevit

(21 Jul 2002) QUALITY AS INCOMING APTN 1. Various politicians arriving 2. Mid shot of Bevlet Bahceli, Nationalist Movement leader, getting out of car and walking into building 3. Mid shot of Mesut Yilmaz, Motherland Party leader, getting out of car and walking into building POOL 4. Various politicians with Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit at his office 5. Mid shot Ecevit 6. Pull out from Sukru Sina Gurel, Deputy Prime Minister, to wide shot of coalition leaders meeting APTN 7. Various media outside prime minister's office 8. Various written statement announcing November 3 election date being distributed to journalists 9. Various of TV journalists giving live reports STORYLINE: Ailing Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and his coalition partners have agreed to hold early elections in November after the government lost its majority in parliament with a further six legislators defecting. In a written statement after a meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, the coalition leaders said they had reached an agreement for polls on November 3 and would take the proposal to their parties for confirmation. Nationalists, now the largest group in the government after mass defections from Ecevit's party, had already called for a November 3 election. But before Tuesday Ecevit had argued that elections should be held as scheduled in 2004, while the third partner had pressed for a snap poll in September. The decision came as six more resignations from Ecevit's party left the government with just 275 seats in the 550-member parliament. Ecevit had vowed to resign if this happened, but the coalition partners appear to have decided to remain in power and challenge the opposition to bring the government down. For the opposition to oust the government, it would have to muster 276 votes to support a motion of no confidence. Opposition parties and independents have 262 seats in the parliament, which has 13 empty seats, but it isn't clear whether all of them would vote to unseat the government. Ecevit's government is on the verge of collapse following a wave of defections from his party and bickering among his partners over reforms the European Union has demanded in return for consideration for membership. Since last week, 59 legislators have left Ecevit's Democratic Left Party. A group of nine dissident lawmakers from within the party met Ecevit on Tuesday in a bid to persuade the ailing premier to call an emergency party congress - a move that could pave the way for his replacement - but the lawmakers said Ecevit had rejected the call. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...