What the June 12 Turkish elections mean for the Middle East and global finance<\/p>\n
Anthony Randazzo | May 25, 2011<\/p>\n
Istanbul\u2014President Barack Obama outlined a number of goals for rebranding America to the Muslim world in his recent State Department speech, including the completion of Arab Spring democratic reforms and a bold position supporting a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine based on pre-1967 borders.<\/p>\n
But if Washington is going to be successful, it is going to need Ankara on its side, as Turkey\u2014and especially its Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2014is increasing looked to as a leader in the Muslim world. And much of that depends on the outcome of next month\u2019s Turkish parliamentary elections on June 12.<\/p>\n
Turkey is a hive of buzzing political activity these days. Banners are strung across nearly every street blazing the logos of Turkey\u2019s leading parties\u2014the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP), and the Nationalist Action Party (MHP).<\/p>\n
Large busses roll up and down the streets and highways blasting propaganda and patriotic music and displaying the smiling faces of candidates. And pictures of party leaders Erdo\u011fan (AKP) and Kemal K\u0131l\u0131cdaro\u011flu (CHP) staring solemnly into the distance adorn billboards, old palace walls, and signs along busy roads.<\/p>\n
All and all, the swarm of political literature and advertising makes U.S. presidential elections look like a race for county treasurer. And this is despite the fact that there is little question as to who will win the election.<\/p>\n
via Obama’s Success Hinges on Turkey’s Upcoming Election – Reason Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What the June 12 Turkish elections mean for the Middle East and global finance Anthony Randazzo | May 25, 2011 Istanbul\u2014President Barack Obama outlined a number of goals for rebranding America to the Muslim world in his recent State Department speech, including the completion of Arab Spring democratic reforms and a bold position supporting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":42224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[145,1153],"class_list":["post-34348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-barack-obama","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}