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| Compiled on August 06, 2014, 03:32 PM CET |
| ONE-MAN STATE Presidential Election Set to Seal Erdogan's Supremacy Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan began his political career as a democratic reformer. But those days are long gone. His battles against the country's old elite and the demonstrators of Gezi Park revealed his despotic tendencies. Now, he wants to become president. |
| FOR ERDOGAN, OR AGAINST HIM Turks in Germany Get the Vote For decades, Turks in Germany weren't able to vote, neither in their homeland nor in their adopted country. Now, Prime Minister Erdogan has changed that in the search for more support. But the Turkish electorate in Germany is torn. |
