Analysis: Turkey at a Crossroads Prior to Sunday’s Snap Elections
By Joris Leverink
ISTANBUL, Oct 27 2015 (IPS) - This Sunday, November 1, Turkey heads to the polls for the second time this year, to elect the 550 members of its Grand National Assembly. The snap elections were called for by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in late August when the different parties failed to form a coalition government after the June elections, in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) had lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since its 13 years in power.
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