The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, is having further talks with the Turkish government about reforms, which are a condition for more support to combat ninety percent inflation.

The Prime Minister, Mesut Yilmaz, has said he will resign by the end of the year and hold early elections next April, if the left-wing opposition party on which his minority government depends for support votes through his reforms.

But the BBC Ankara Correspondent says there is still disagreement over raising the retirement age from under forty to sixty-two as the IMF wants.