Turkey's ruling party contested poll but dice was loaded

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a decisive victory in last weekend’s poll but what are the long-term implications, Arlene Getz asks Professor Howard Eissenstat

Turkey’s polarising President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a decisive victory in the June 24 elections. He will serve his latest term as a more powerful head of state, wielding extensive executive powers approved in a controversial referendum last year. Howard Eissenstat, an associate professor of Middle East History at St Lawrence University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy, spoke to Reuters editor Arlene Getz about the implications of the poll outcome.