Uncertainty after Turkey’s elections: Voters reject Erdoğan’s ambitions, June 8, 2015

Summary

The prospects for Turkey after the voters ended 12 years of single-party government, ushering in an era of coalitions - and ıncreased uncertainty for the economy. This analysis looks at the various options ahead and the new challenges to policy making. Is the Erdoğan economic miracle now finally over?

Where next for Turkey? The electorate has turned its back on the vaulting ambitions of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and welcomed the pro-Kurdish HDP to the Grand National Assembly. But no party has a majority. Will his ex-party, the AK Party, form a minority government, with HDP abstaining? Will it form a coalition with one of its opponents who today refuse the idea? Will the opposition form a coalition, and would Erdoğan allow it? Or will there be a fresh general election?

 

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