President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tightens grip on power as party nears large enough majority to invent constitutional changesTurkey’s strongman president,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 a convincing win in national elections.The high-stakes vote, or Turkey’s second in five months,took dwelling 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