Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for snap parliamentary and presidential elections to be held on June 24, more than a year earlier than planned.

In an address at his presidential palace today, Erdogan said the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency.

The date will still need to be confirmed by the election commission, he said, but preparations would begin.

His comments came after meeting Devlet Bahceli, head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), who a day earlier had floated the prospect of early polls.

The parliamentary and presidential polls had previously been slated for November 2019