Battle brews over economic policy in Turkey’s AKP after election win
Reuters
November 08, 2015
ANKARA: Behind its monolithic facade, a row over economic policy is raging in Turkey's AK Party as it readies for another four years in power, with President Tayyip Erdogan's aides pumping populist growth plans while others lobby for reforms. The conservative, Islamist-rooted AKP won back a majority lost only five months earlier in a surprise electoral turnaround on Sunday, ushering in a return to single-party rule that Erdogan cast as a "vote for stability" and investors initially took as an end to months of uncertainty.
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