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Erdoğan's bid to create de facto presidential system to lead tension

Erdoğan's bid to create de facto presidential system to lead tension

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended a groundbreaking ceremony of the Eurasia Tunnel on Saturday.
April 20, 2014, Sunday/ 19:14:32/ AYDIN ALBAYRAK/ ANKARA

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's intention to de facto convert Turkey's parliamentarian system to a presidential one without changing the Constitution is sure to cause political tension, analysts have said.

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