TWO MPs from a pro-Kurdish party are poised to take up ministerial posts for the first time in Turkey as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu forms an interim government to lead the country into a new election on November 1.

Mr Davutoglu said he would present an interim cabinet list for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s approval yesterday.

The caretaker government will be mainly made up of ruling party MPs and independents after two main opposition parties refused to participate.

Two pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP) MPs accepted invitations to join the cabinet, as did a prominent nationalist who broke ranks with his party.

Meanwhile, two British journalists were detained in the southern city Diyarbakir, along with their translator.

Vice News reporter Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury were quizzed by anti-terror police for filming without “media accreditation.”