Well, the Islamist ruling party won Turkey’s parliamentary elections with 46% of the vote, a landslide by Turkish standards. They will have slightly fewer seats in the next parliament, which they will share with the center-left secularist Republican Peoples Party and the secularist nationalist party. Largely pro-PKK Kurdish independents won 25 seats.

A few questions that will come into play now:

1) Will the AKP be able to achieve a quorum to elect a president without violating terms of constitutional articles 96 and 102 as they did last time (leading to the voiding of the selection?) Will they be able to do so without relying on the pro-PKK votes?

2) Debt accumulated under AKP stewardship is equivalent to that accumulated in the three decades prior to the AKP’s rise to power. Having mortgaged the future for short-term gain and under crippling debt, will the AKP be able to avert a currency crisis? If there is one, will they be able to foist blame on outsiders or will they take responsibility?