Erdogan Toprak, deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People's Party, has said the prime minister "would like to bring the sultan back" - a reference to the old days of the Ottoman Empire before Turkey become a republic.

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Well, one of his ancestors was instructed by the then Sultan Abdul Hamid I in the late 18th century to fix the already ailing Ottoman empire's finances.

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