ANKARA — The September 12 referendum on whether to amend 26 articles of the Turkish constitution passed with a clear majority — 58 percent of the electorate voted in favor of the package. The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, were the net winners, while the pro-Kurdish [...]

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According to this year’s Transatlantic Trends survey, Turkey can be seen as drifting away from the West. How do we know? After surveying approximately 1,000 people in Turkey (along with about 1,000 in the United States and each of 11 European Union countries) on a host of foreign policy and economic policy questions, we found [...]

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