IT HAS been a U-turn to make a stunt driver proud. For the past couple of years, Devlet Bahceli, the head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),the fourth-largest in parliament, had been considered one of President Recep Tayyip Er-dogan's most vicious critics. Mr Erdogan's plan to replace the country's parliamentary system with an executive presidency, he once warned, was a recipe for a "sultanate without a throne" and a system with "no balances, no checks, and no brakes". Mr Bahceli opposed the constitutional overhaul as recently as October.
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