Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Turkey's June election is quietly being stolen - Chicago Tribune

Turkey's June election is quietly being stolen
By Marc Champion, Bloomberg News Bloomberg

Remember how, two months ago, hopes for Turkish democracy were buoyed by the success of a Kurdish party that managed to appeal across ethnic divides and make it into parliament? How that seemed to thwart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to create a Russian-style presidency? His ruling party seemed poised, for the first time since gaining power in 2002, to govern in a coalition.

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