Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Turkey's ruling party wins most seats but
falls short of majority
No to autocracy. There was a clear message
by the voters of Turkey to the president who had tried to empower his role in a
pivotal country in the Middle East.
The parliamentary constitutional republic succeeded
the Ottoman Empire in 1920. It’s well known for the ancient city Istanbul but
its capital is now Ankara. While it is a secular state with no official state
religion, and the constitution provides for freedom of religion and conscience,
Sunni Muslim is the dominant religion of the nearly 80-million population.
The leader of the still-ruling party,
ex-three-term prime minster and the incumbent president built a highly controversial
presidential palace that has at least 1,150 rooms, additional guesthouses, a botanical
garden, a situation room with satellite and military communications systems,
bunkers able to withstand biological, nuclear and chemical weapons attack, a
park and a congress center.
Will that sort of extravaganza will do any
good to the citizens? Didn’t he witness and learn from the Arab Spring? The
answer was clear.
Enjoy reading and learning about the voice
of democracy.
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