Erdogan Trains His Broom on a Sweep of Turkey’s Governing Party

Source:New York Times Date:27Dec2017

Erdogan’s reform efforts in AKP are likely to fail, because the main problem lies with his policies, not the rank-and file. By the way, the party is losing support big time:  Mr. Erdogan remains by far the most prominent and popular politician in Turkey. But his party has slipped to 43 percent from 49 percent in popular support, according to one recent opinion poll.