Turkey's Election Appears to be All about Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s name won’t appear on any of the ballot papers Turks will be presented with on November 1 but no one here doubts that the parliamentary elections — the second this year — will be dominated by Turkey’s controversial leader and his often-stated aim to grab more power for himself. Opposition politicians claim that Erdoğan’s ego has dragged the country into yet another election — they say he purposely set out to sabotage the formation of a coalition...

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