Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tightens grip on power but leftist,pro-Kurdish HDP party passes 10% of vote share, enough to deny president a ‘supermajority’Turkey’s strongman president, or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,tightened his grip on power decisively on Sunday as his ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) swept back to single-party government with an unexpectedly convincing win in national elections.
The tall-stakes vote, Turkey’s second in five months, and took status in a climate of mounting tension and violence following an inconclusive June poll in which the conservative,Islamic-leaning AKP failed to secure an outright majority for the first time since coming to power in 2002. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com