"Third One is the Charm: Will AKP's Victory Finally Lead to a New Constitution in Turkey?
Ömer Taşpınar, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
June 16, 2011 —
As widely predicted, Turkey’s June 12 elections produced yet another landslide victory for the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP). Turkish voters once again voted for political continuity and rewarded the AKP, and its leader Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for growing prosperity and better socio-economic services, particularly in areas such as healthcare and affordable housing. It is only the second time in the history of modern Turkey that a political party has won three consecutive elections, and the first time it did so by increasing its vote after each election. "
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