Re: TURKEY: AKP’s Landslide Victory (and Growth of the Secular Far Right)
On Jul 22, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Newspaper Radikal’s “Orijinal Demokrasi” Ad, Unexpurgated: http://youtube.com/watch?v=x9A9WJNGY-Q Transcript of “Orijinal Demokrasi”: http://www.damacana.org/2007/07/radikal-gazetesi-orjinal- demokrasi.html>
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/415002.asp NTVMSNBC.com Turkey’s ruling party heading to landslide victory
If the AKP maintains it 50 percent share of the vote, it could finish the night with 350 seats in the new parliament.
ANKARA - Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) appears to be heading to a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election.
[from Reuters]
Economists said [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan] Turkey’s most
popular politician, 53, could now continue free-market policies and
kick-start stalled EU membership talks, despite growing
disillusionment in Turkey towards joining the bloc.
“This is the best-case scenario for markets … The question now is
how is the establishment going to react and this is something the
markets are going to be worried about,” said analyst Simon Quijano-
Evans.