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Inside Europe: Erdogan tightens his grip on power

Chase Winter
June 29, 2018

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won an absolute majority of 53 percent in last weekend's presidential vote. Now he has sweeping executive powers that Turks narrowly backed in a referendum last year. Keith Walker speaks with DW reporter Chase Winter, a Middle East analyst with expertise in Turkey and Kurdish affairs, and starts by asking him essentially what the result means.

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