Coup Attempt: Erdogan and Ak Party

coup attempt: Begin with the worst constitutional crisis, the one taking place in Turkey in the aftermath of a coup attempt against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to The Waterloo Record. The background is complicated Erdogan's AK Party won national elections in 2002, 2007 and 2015; Erdogan himself was directly elected president in 2014. Turkey, Poland, Britain, the U. S. each case sheds some light on how different constitutional arrangements respond to the challenges of political factions. All these elections were pretty clean, and most observers accept that a plurality of Turks have preferred Erdogan's party for a decade and a half. Beyond that, Erdogan has been slowly but clearly eroding freedom of the press as he has become increasingly authoritarian. During that time, the Turkish constitution has come under pressure both from AK's attempts to make it more religion-friendly and from the efforts of the constitutional court to maintain the radical secularism enshrined in the document. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.