Encounter

TURKEY’S DO OVER ELECTION In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party or AKP won a decisive victory in the nation’s recent “do-over” elections, after having lost its parliamentary majority in June. Kadir Ustun, Executive Director of The Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in Washington and Blaise Misztal, Director, National Security Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center, who just returned from Turkey, discuss the significance and ramifications of this outcome and its impact on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s stewardship of the NATO nation’s domestic, regional and foreign policy..