Moving Forward: Interpreting Turkey's July 22 Election

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AMB. MARK PARRIS : When we were putting Turkey 2007 together, Abdullah and I and Phil Gordon and some others, we anticipated that this year would be an unusually action packed year in Turkey's internal politics. What we hadn't anticipated was that so much of the action would be packed into the first half of the year. I had originally anticipated sort of having this session in November.

What happened, of course, was a result of Turkey's efforts to select a new president this spring having gone off the rails and of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to move forward general elections that had been in fact scheduled or expected in November.

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