Turkey’s neo-Ottomanism in troubled waters
Author: M.K. Bhadrakumar June 11, 2015
Foreign policy was not a major campaign issue in Turkey’s general election on Sunday. The steep 10% drop in the ruling Justice & Democratic Party’s (known as AKP) vote share, which deprived it of a simple majority in the new parliament, cannot be attributed to the controversial foreign policy trajectory followed by the party’s de facto leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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