Consensus is rare in Turkey’s increasingly polarised society. Yet, over the past two years or so, the conviction has spread across the political spectrum that, as a leading political scientist says, “there are no checks and balances in Turkish politics”. President Abdullah Gul, at last week’s opening of parliament, underlined that: “The separation of powers, a free press, and an effective opposition are also among the indispensable elements of democracy.”
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