Inside Story - A hollow victory for Turkey's Erdogan?
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK party won a third term in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
It won just under 50 per cent of the vote, and secured 326 of the 550 seats in parliament. But the AKP will not be able to make unilateral constitutional changes. Does another resounding election victory make Recep Tayyip Erdogan the most successful prime minister in the history of Turkey? Inside Story discusses with Yusuf Kanli, a columnist for the Hurriyet Daily News in Ankara; Nicole Pope, the author of Turkey Unveiled, A History of Modern Turkey in Istanbul; and Mustafa El-Labad, the director of Al Sharq Centre for Regional and Strategic Studies in Cairo.
It won just under 50 per cent of the vote, and secured 326 of the 550 seats in parliament. But the AKP will not be able to make unilateral constitutional changes. Does another resounding election victory make Recep Tayyip Erdogan the most successful prime minister in the history of Turkey? Inside Story discusses with Yusuf Kanli, a columnist for the Hurriyet Daily News in Ankara; Nicole Pope, the author of Turkey Unveiled, A History of Modern Turkey in Istanbul; and Mustafa El-Labad, the director of Al Sharq Centre for Regional and Strategic Studies in Cairo.
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