Turkey – Domestic challenges that will dominate AK Party government’s third term

FPC Briefing (UK) Septembre 2011

By Ziya Meral *

One thing was certain about the June 2011 elections in Turkey: AKP would win. Yet speculation over whether or not it would earn a greater share of the vote was rife, as was the forecasting of how many votes the renewed leadership of the leading secular opposition party, CHP (Republican People’s Party) would attract, or whether the MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) would make the 10% threshold to enter parliament, or how many MPs the Kurdish BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) would have.

* Ziya Meral is a London based Turkish analyst, writer and a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Cambridge. He is an expert on religion and human rights issues across the Middle East and is currently researching on religious violence and its prevention as a Joseph Crapa Fellow at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom

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