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Turkey’s Election Scenarios: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary
Anything other than a decisive win or loss for strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan could touch off an ugly fight over the results.
- Mustafa Akyol
- National Review
Οn Sunday, more than 60 million voters throughout Turkey will cast their votes in what may be the most fateful election for the nation since its founding a century ago.
Depending on the results, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been ruling the country in an increasingly authoritarian and erratic fashion since 2002, will either further consolidate his grip on power or…