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Turkey’s Erdogan Is Poised for a Third Decade in Power
The strong performance of the president and his party seems set to overcome the steepest political challenge he has thus far faced.
A third decade looms.
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Looks like we’ll have Recep Tayyip Erdogan to kick us around for a while yet. Sunday’s election has produced a runoff between him and opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and results suggest that the president will go into the second round on May 28 feeling optimistic about his chances.
He will take great hope from the concurrent parliamentary elections, in which the ruling coalition led by his AK Party has retained its majority. And in the top-of-the-card contest, his opponent didn’t really land any serious blows.