Weekly Tracker: December 15-21

TURKEY - Report 15 Dec 2013 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada
Executive Summary New polls show AKP having dropped to 46%, but the party is certain to win most big-city races. PKK leaders are threatening war once again, while Kurdish provinces erupted in protest in response to alleged police killings of three citizens. The Ergenekon-Sledgehammer coup plotting cases are unraveling with important implications for Turkish politics. AKP and the Gulen Church remain at arms, as rumors of a widespread purge of the latter from the bureaucracy after local elections dominate pro-AKP media. In energy news, first drops of oil tickled through the new Kurdish pipeli...

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