Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will run for the presidency in elections due next year if asked to do so by his party.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will run for the presidency in elections due next year if asked to do so by his party.

“I have not made such a decision for sure yet,” Reuters quoted Erdogan as saying in an interview with Turkish broadcaster A Haber late on Thursday.

According to the rules of his AK Party, Erdogan cannot run again as prime minister in a general election in 2015.

He has been expected to stand for a new executive presidency, but his plans to establish such an enhanced role have stalled.