16/11/13
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It appears that Turkey’s powerful prime minister, Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, and his popular Justice and Development Party (AK Party) have
set the election campaign on fear and divisions, rather than a
conciliatory tone in a very much polarized society.
Erdoğan’s people are determined to run a partisan campaign, hoping this
will prevent defectors from peeling away from the ranks. In the
aftermath of the May-June anti-government rallies as part of the Gezi
Park protests, the AK Party was in fact able to gain some points it had
lost since the last elections of 2011, when voters were scared off by
the violence that erupted amid protests. This was a temporary spike,
however, and the AK Party could not hold onto gains when the tension in
society was diffused.