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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Post-election Erdogan cannot regain power he lost - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Post-election Erdogan cannot regain power he lost

There is a quasi consensus in Turkey that the June 7 parliamentary election results have ended President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dreams of the executive presidency, introducing an increasingly authoritarian one-man rule. The election results have restrained Erdogan's ambitions and brought optimism that Turkey’s democratic experiment could ultimately be successful. Turkish democracy proved that it is much more resilient than many thought prior to the elections.

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