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– After delivering years of strife, Erdoğan demands more power (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News April 12, 2017

This Sunday, Turkey will hold a referendum on changes to its constitution that would transform the country from a parliamentary to a presidential republic, concentrating power in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdoğan has pursued this greater responsibility despite an increasingly disastrous record of governance.
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