Turkey's political theater signals potential new parties - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Tulin Daloglu

Tulin Daloglu

Aug 13, 2014

Ballots are seen under a stamp, with the word "yes", at a polling station in Ankara March 30, 2014. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan looks set to win Sunday's municipal elections that have become a crisis referendum on his 10-year rule as he tries to ward off graft allegations and stem a stream of damaging security leaks. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR3J6TT — Ballots are seen under a stamp, with the word "yes," at a polling station in Ankara, March 30, 2014. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

The main opposition candidate in Turkey's presidential election, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu speaks after he cast his vote for Turkey's presidential election at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 10, 2014. Turks were voting in their first direct presidential election Sunday _ a watershed event in TurkeyÕs 91-year history, where the president was previously elected by Parliament. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated the country's politics for the past decade, is the strong front-runn

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Members of parliament from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) walk out during the inauguration ceremony of new President Tayyip Erdogan (not pictured) at the parliament in Ankara August 28, 2014. Erdogan was sworn in as Turkey's 12th president on Thursday, cementing his position as its most powerful leader of recent times, in what his opponents fear heralds an increasingly authoritarian rule. Reading the oath of office in a ceremony in parliament, Erdogan vowed to protect Turkey's inde

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People walk past election posters for Turkey's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Tayyip Erdogan (L), Turkish main opposition presidential candidate Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (R) and Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) and presidential candidate in Istanbul August 8, 2014. Erdogan is set to secure his place in history as Turkey's first popularly-elected president on Sunday, but his tightening grip on power has polarised the nation, worried Western allies and

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