Turkish voters headed to the polls Sunday for the second time in five months as the country struggles with deep unrest and divisions over its political future.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu, the prime minister and leader of the party, sought to reassert their authority, after a disappointing result in the earlier elections meant the end of a 13-year-long, single-party majority rule.
Turks last voted in June but the conservative, Islamic-leaning AKP failed to form a coalition after winning 41 percent of the vote. The party was forced to enter coalition negotiations but couldn’t agree with the center-left CHP on …read more
Source: European Voice
