Why Municipal Elections in Turkey Have Global Significance
When Reccep Tayyep Erdogan's party the AKP won a landslide victory in Turkey's 2002 general elections he became a very different kind of Turkish leader from his predecessors, who were avowedly secular.
For a time, Erdogan presided over a booming economy and was hailed for being a modernizing Muslim leader in a troubled region. His r…
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