Friday, October 23, 2015

What is the worst Turkish election scenario? - MURAT YETKİN

What is the worst Turkish election scenario?

Well, it depends on who you ask.

If you ask to an average supporter of the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti), who is probably more loyal to President Tayyip Erdoğan than the party itself, the answer would be “not re-gaining a parliamentary majority” in the Nov. 1 re-election, having to share power with strangers, and losing what they have got accustomed to over the last 13 years under single-party governments. That is partly why the AK Parti grassroots has largely postponed questioning a number of things that many find hard to digest - from corruption allegations to fluctuations in the party’s Kurdish policy. They think they will be able to settle accounts within the party once they have regained power. They wouldn’t much care if Erdoğan forced the party to take its chairmanship from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and give it to another name indicated by Erdoğan.

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