Is Turkey reaching a turning point?
By Editorial Board June 5 at 7:50 PM
TWO POLITICAL stories have dominated Turkey since the turn of the century: the steady consolidation of power by Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the emergence of the country’s Kurdish minority from decades of violent insurgency and repression to become a peaceful and accepted political force. On Sunday, those movements will collide in what may be the most important Turkish election since the country’s adoption of democracy 65 years ago.
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