Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Turkey’s President-in-Waiting?
Posted by: Marc Pierini Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1 Print Page
As I write, the probability of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan running for president of the Republic of Turkey in an election on August 10 seems to get higher by the day. For a long time, most Western observers of Turkish politics thought either that the current situation would continue—with Abdullah Gül as president and Mr. Erdoğan as prime minister—or that the two men would swap jobs.
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