Erdogan's
Dream: The Sultan Rules
by Burak Bekdil
• May 15, 2015 at 5:00 am
It is election time in Turkey. On June 7, the Turks will go to the
ballot box to elect a government and a prime minister who will rule the
country for four years.
In reality, they will go to the ballot box to decide whether they want
an elected Sultan or not.
Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than just to win a
parliamentary majority for his Justice and Development Party (AKP). He wants
a two-thirds majority, so that the constitution can be amended to introduce
an executive presidential system and the Sultan can once again officially
rule.
In 2013, Burhan Kuzu, the AKP's chairman of the parliament's
Constitution Commission, compared the U.S. presidency to the broad powers of
Turkey's prime minister (who at the time was Erdogan), saying, "Obama is
a poor man, the Prime Minister is powerful."
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Erdogan's Dream: The Sultan Rules
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