High stakes and low blows: Turkey's double-or-nothing election (part 2)

FRANCE 24 English 2015-06-04

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Some are calling it Turkey's most important poll in more than half a century. Even though he's now president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is descending from his perch to campaign hard in a general election where, if his Islamist-rooted AK Party wins a landslide, he can then draw up a constitutional referendum that could make him the most powerful civilian leader since the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk. So which way for Turkey and its democracy?


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