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By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will formally give up trying to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed, raising the prospect of a fractious interim administration leading the country to a new election. Davutoglu had been trying to find a junior coalition partner since the AK Party lost its parliamentary majority in an election in June, leaving it unable to govern alone for the first time since it came to power in 2002. AKP spokesman Besir Atalay said Davutoglu would hand the mandate back to President Tayyip Erdogan at a meeting later on Tuesday, and that the party would hold a congress on Sept. 12.More...