For nine years Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has moved smoothly from one victory to another, winning three elections in a row with a bigger share of the vote each time. He has seen off coup plots by once-omnipotent generals and attempts by their cronies in the judiciary to ban his mildly Islamist Jus tice and Development (ak) party. So far the economy has survived the financial crisis largely unscathed.
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