June 8, 2015

Turks deny Erdogan a parliamentary majority

(Paul Mirengoff) Turkish president President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likes to say, "democracy is a train that you get off once you reach your destination." Having been rebuffed in today's election, Erdogan may not quite reach his destination. Erdogan sought a parliamentary super-majority to enable him to push through constitutional change that would abandon Turkey's parliamentary system for a presidential one, with him in charge. Instead, his AKP party lost even its parliamentary

Source: Power Line