Turkey’s Energizing Opposition
By ANDREW FINKEL
ANKARA — If the Turkish government appears gripped with arrogance, that’s in part because it rules unopposed. Opinion polls show Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, still struggling to improve on the 2011 election results, when it received just over a quarter of the popular vote. That was its third loss in a row.
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