tayyip erdogan
Transport Minister Binali Yildirim will be the sole candidate for the AK Party leadership at a special party congress on Sunday.
The German chancellor allowed prosecutors to investigate Jan Boehmermann after he mocked Turkey's president on television.
The satirist read a crude poem about the leader on German TV.
"You cannot consider insults and threats press freedom or criticism," Erdogan said.
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Armenia is allowing Russia to menace NATO member Turkey, according to the lobbyists.
Ankara has agreed to take back all undocumented migrants who crossed to Greece, including Syrian refugees.
Staff at the paper rushed to publish the next edition before administrators arrived.
Relations between the two countries broke down in 2010 after an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla killed eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish-American.
Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting."
"This is a success exceeding our expectations," a party official said, acknowledging the scale of the victory was a surprise.