Turkish PM vows fiscal discipline after polls

AGRI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters his ruling AK Party will stick with its current economic policies, including tough fiscal discipline, if it wins next month's national elections.

"We will continue fiscal discipline, the current economic policy and for this we need political as well as economic stability. That's why we need the government to continue as it is, that is as a single-party government,"" Erdogan said in an interview aboard his plane during campaigning in east Turkey late on Tuesday.

Opposition parties have criticized the AK Party's IMF-backed conservative monetary and fiscal policies and its sweeping privatizations which have so far raised $20 billion for state coffers.