Down but not out: Turkish voters clip Erdogan's wings


  • World
  • Tuesday, 09 Jun 2015

ANKARA (Reuters) - He sits in his newly-built thousand-room "White Palace", his plans for a powerful presidency all but ready; but in the very hour that should have seen his final triumph, Tayyip Erdogan's star appears to be waning.

If one sentiment united the country's disparate opposition parties after Sunday's parliamentary election, it was this: a resounding "no" to Erdogan's drive to transform the country's political landscape in search of what he sees as a new Turkey.

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