Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Turkish Parliament Starts With Boycott - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ

"Turkish Parliament Starts With Boycott

By Ayla Albayrak

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have won a clean victory in elections earlier this month, but his pledge to draw up a new constitution by consensus looked in trouble already Tuesday, when almost a third of the 550 elected deputies refused to be sworn in to the new Parliament."

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