By Simon Cameron-Moore and Daren Butler
ISTANBUL
Mon Aug 8, 2011 12:30pm EDT
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has an unspoken pact with the Turkish electorate: he delivers rapid economic growth, jobs and money, and voters let him shape what kind of democracy this Muslim nation of 74 million people becomes.
So far, the deal has served him well.
Erdogan has overseen a near tripling of per capita income in the last decade. That has helped blunt misgivings over the way he deals with dissent, and allowed him to subordinate Turkey's powerful military, which has long seen itself as guardian of the country's secular soul. Last year he used a plebiscite on constitutional reform to break the cliques in the judiciary, another bastion of Turkey's secular old guard....more...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/08/us-turkey-erdogan-idUSTRE7773X420110808
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