EDITORIAL: Turkish democracy under pressure

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As expected, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his Muslim AKP party won a third term in office in Sunday’s general elections in Turkey.

Observers have said that the election was ‘well-organised’. But the election campaign has been marred, among other things, by limits to free speech and political blackmail. The high electoral threshold at 10 per cent is also highly questionable, particularly in a country with a plethora of minorities – an issue that results a less than representative Meclis.

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