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A man holds scarves bearing the names and images of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) and President Tayyip Erdogan as supporters of the AK Party gather to wait for the arrival of Davutoglu in Istanbul, Turkey November 3, 2015. Erdogan said on Monday the nation had voted for stability in a parliamentary election that saw the AK Party he founded win almost 50 percent of the vote, and said the world should respect the result. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RTX1UIYW
A man holds scarves bearing the names and images of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as supporters of the Justice and Development Party wait for the arrival of Davutoglu in Istanbul, Nov. 3, 2015. Erdogan said the nation had voted for stability in a parliamentary election that saw the party he founded win almost 50% of the vote. - REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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Erdogan’s ‘Machiavellian cunning’

Kadri Gursel argues that “the Erdogan regime won the [Grand National Assembly] elections by adding new problems to Turkey’s already hefty load of them and then convincing part of the electorate that only the AKP could resolve them. The credit should go to Erdogan as the architect of an exceptional tactical victory achieved with Machiavellian cunning."

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