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be a new experience for all Turks. Because to date, the presidency, the largely symbolic yet highest post in the republic, has been elected by the Parliament. Yet with a constitutional amendment in 2007, which came right after the election of the current president, Abdullah Gill, the system was changed a
le 6 Hiirriyet The next battle: Presidency Mustafa Akyol EFTA00705808 4/5/2014 -- After yet another election victory of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey is now turning its focus to the next battle: the presidential elections that will be held on Aug. 10,
be a new experience for all Turks. Because to date, the presidency, the largely symbolic yet highest post in the republic, has been elected by the Parliament. Yet with a constitutional amendment in 2007, which came right after the election of the current president, Abdullah GuI, the system was changed a
he next battle: Presidency Mustafa Akyol 4/5/2014 -- After yet another election victory of the ruling EFTA_R1_02203851 EFTA02720469 Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey is now turning its focus to the next battle: the presidential elections that will be held on Aug. 10,
nd Coptic leaders to support the military in its feud with the Brotherhood, and even to call on the generals to keep power until new elections for Parliament can be held. EFTA_R1_022071 41 EFTA02722352 In trying to ease the Islamists' grip on government, liberals have also been accused of being conten
722363 that would be conservatively religious but not outright Islamist. In 2001, Erdogan seized the moment, forming a new party, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP. The AKP, according to Balci, contrasted with its Islamist precursors in two key respects: it was highly internationalist, and specifically
in early elections this year - but it would fall short for the presidency. Erdogan would have to change the "maximum of three consecutive terms in Parliament" rule in the AK Parti and focus on keeping the government. But he may not give up so easily. According to whispers in the political corridors of A
president keeping the party leadership position even after being elected, hinting that he did not want to leave the chair of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) to a successor, even if that successor is his long time fellow Gill. He was hinting at a referendum for the kind of system that could le
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