Ankara Jan 15 (DPA -NT) - The national-liberal Motherland Party (ANAP) said Saturday it has turned down an offer from the pro-Islamic Welfare Party (RP) to form a governing coalition in Turkey. Emerging from almost two and a half hours of talks with the RP, ANAP leader Mesut Yilmaz said there was no prospect of narrowing the differences between the two parties about the fundamental problems facing the country. Demirel asked Erbakan to try to form Turkey's 53rd government last Tuesday. The RP leader then approached Ciller, who turned him down on January 11. Yilmaz said the most fundamental difference between ANAP and the RP was that his party wanted to lead Turkey to full membership in the European Union. The RP, during the political campaign, had propagated moving Turkey further from Europe, he said. The ANAP also wants to reduce the roll of the state in economic development while the RP favours greater state influence in the economy, Yilmaz said. The differences between ANAP and Ciller's party were "far less problematic to eliminate", he argued. The RP emerged from last month's elections as the biggest faction, with 158 seats in the 550-seat parliament, ahead of the DYP's 135 seats and the 132 seats won by the ANAP. /AA1234/132006 Jan 96

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