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November 2, 2015

Stein on the AKP’s Win in Turkey

By Aaron Stein

Business Insider UK quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Aaron Stein on the win of President Recep Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey’s elections:

“The AKP out-performed all of its polls — most analysts, including myself, thought that the AKP would be forced to enter into negotiations with an opposition party,” Aaron Stein, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Business Insider by email.

He added: “Kurdish youth aligned with the PKK could hasten their self-declared push for regional autonomy in certain cities, but there is no doubt that the AKP has a mandate to govern.”

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