"Turkey: Time for reassessment
Thursday, June 23, 2011
MORTEN MESSERSCHMIDT - ROBERT ELLIS
The remarkable thing about the Turkish election result is not that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party, or AKP, won but the unanimity in the international press that it would not be good for Turkish democracy if they gained 330 seats or more in the Turkish parliament. In the event, half the votes only resulted in 326 seats, falling short of the 330 seats needed to change the constitution with a referendum and the 367 seats which would have made it possible for the government to change the constitution alone."
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