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Dark Clouds Over Turkey - NYTimes.com

Dark Clouds Over Turkey

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMAY 22, 2015

With two weeks to go before a crucial parliamentary election in Turkey, tensions are rising and some critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fear a new crackdown is starting to ensure that his Justice and Development Party wins. That kind of brute manipulation of the political process would be a serious mistake, further weakening the country’s battered democracy and tainting whatever victory might emerge.

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