Turkey’s Snap Elections: Erdoğan is forcing his people to take sides
By contributors | Aug. 27, 2015 |
By Bahar Baser and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk | (The Conversation) | – –
Ever since the June 2015 elections, which thwarted the proposed presidential system that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has long craved, Turkey has been hurtling into one of its most turbulent periods in decades. And with a snap election called for November 2015, the country’s political factions are facing off in an ever more violent and bitter fashion.
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