Friday, July 27, 2012

Kemal Kilicdaroglu wants to upend the Ankara status quo - NYTimes.com

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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