Erdogan’s election gamble pays off
David Gardner David Gardner
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s tactic of polarising opinion in Turkey has worked.
He has won back a parliamentary majority for the ruling party he founded, the neo-Islamist Justice and Development party, in Sunday’s re-run of June’s general election, which had left the country with a hung parliament after 13 years of single-party AKP rule. His gamble on confrontation has paid off. But he still has to pick up the pieces of a deeply divided country.
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