Who will be asked by Turkey's President Suleyman Demirel to form the new government?
Mr Demirel, who played a big role abroad and at home, will be hard to follow.
Precedent says that Mr Demirel should ask the leader of the largest party in parliament to try his hand.
Not surprisingly, Mr Demirel has put these advances down to growing Turkish stubbornness.
But Mr Demirel became a crucial mediator between the council's politicians and soldiers.
Other members will include the European Union's Javier Solana, a former Turkish president, Suleyman Demirel, and Norway's foreign minister, Thorbjorn Jagland.
President Demirel may surprise everybody by appointing a neutral caretaker government to carry the country through to a relatively early election.
President Bill Clinton fired off a resolve-stiffening letter to President Suleyman Demirel.
In 1996, President Suleyman Demirel approved Welfare Party leader Necmettin Erbakan as Turkey's first Islamist prime minister in a coalition with conservative Tansu Ciller.
Through Mr Mubarak, Mr Demirel delivered to Syria's President Hafez Assad a menu of demands so unpalatable that the Arabs assumed Turkey wanted war.
Yakin had earlier been denied by Turkey goalkeeper Volkan Demirel, who also did well to tip a swerving free-kick by Tranquillo Barnetta around the post.
Turkey's president, Suleyman Demirel, has already hinted that, if the Court of Human Rights comes out against Mr Ocalan's execution, Turkey might be obliged to back down.
Turkey's President Suleyman Demirel is no Slobodan Milosevic but, egged on by a belligerent chief of staff and a chorus of raucous politicians, he looked ominously capable last week of picking a fight with Syria.
"This cannot be explained by saying this is historical conservation, It is not that, it is about money, " said Ece Demirel, an activist with the Urban Movement Forum, an organization that tracks development projects across Turkey.
CNN: Police try to break up Istanbul shopping project protest
They watched benignly as Suleyman Demirel, now Turkey's president, then its intermittent prime minister, cultivated links with the tarikats, religious brotherhoods outlawed by Ataturk, and oversaw the setting up of more than 200 religious schools known as Imam Hatips.
应用推荐