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...As one drives from one area to another it is easy to tell which municipalities are run by the CHP, the main opposition party, and which by the AK party, the government....
...Official results have still not emerged, and, in a sign of the turbulence, the AK party itself suggested it would call for a revote in Adana and Hatay, two municipalities it lost to the CHP, and a recount...
...She herself used to regularly pick up lentils, rice, oil and butter from the municipality for three years; others got coal. “I don’t know if the municipality or Gokcek is corrupt,” Gulten adds....
...“The AK party hates us all!...
...Hassan Senay, 58, a small businessman typical of the ruling party’s rank and file, reels off the ways in which Erdogan, a former mayor of Istanbul, has reinvigorated the marginalised municipality, with regular...
...Mr Erdogan has brought religion into the equation – but not in the way you might expect The prime minister has built his career around the Islamist-rooted politics of his AK party....
...In the first two AK governments, Mr Bayraktar was president of Toki, the Housing Development Administration of Turkey, a semi-independent leviathan that sidesteps bureaucracy by reporting to the prime minister...
...This month, a man carrying an AK-47 assault rifle opened fire in a bar in the northern city of Chihuahua, killing seven people....
...The SUV has just been fitted with “level IV” protection, capable of stopping rounds from anything up to and including an AK-47 automatic assault rifle....
...“Some tourists don’t even aks. I gets fed up wid it,” he harrumphs, as he signals for me to carry on snapping....
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