Can Turkey’s opposition finally unite and challenge Erdoğan?

June 24, 2018 instead of late 2019: that’s the date decided for Turkey’s “snap presidential and parliamentary elections”, called by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political partner from Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli.

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The elections are needed by the incumbent president, who wants to maintain his position and stay in power.

• AKP’s weaknesses

Erdoğan has to deal with several issues that have recently weakened his party and leadership both domestically and abroad.

Turkey’s military intervention in Syria has become a cul-de-sac, with neither a withdrawal nor victory on the horizon.

The economy, formerly a winning card for the AKP, has unexpectedly weakened and started to turn into the party’s Achilles’ heel – the…

• Can Turkey’s opposition…