The defeat of would-be-emperor Erdoğan
Turkey doesn’t want a Putin of its own.
By Barin Kayaoglu
9/6/15, 11:22 AM CET
Updated 9/6/15, 3:49 PM CET
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), in office since 2002, on Sunday suffered its first electoral defeat. Although the AKP is likely to remain relevant in the Turkish political scene for the foreseeable future, the danger of Erdoğan accumulating more power and establishing a volatile and autocratic regime has passed.
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