All eyes will turn to Turkey this month as it votes in parliamentary elections. After nearly a decade in power, and despite setbacks in the 2009 local elections, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is expected to win another landslide victory. Since January, poll ratings have consistently placed the party’s support in the high forty-percents, and commentators have raised the possibility that the AKP might gain a supermajority of 376 seats in parliament, which would allow it to change the constitution without a referendum. Such an outcome would cement the major changes that Turkey has undergone since the turn of the century, and almost certainly see Erdogan remain in power for longer as Turkey’s constitution transitions towards a more presidential system.
Source: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/publications/reports/SR007.aspx
