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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has prevailed in a constitutional referendum, paving the way for an executive presidency that will make him both head of state and head of government, and ending the country’s current parliamentary political system.
The Conversation Global asked four scholars what they made of the results and what lies ahead for this erstwhile democracy. Here’s what they said.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine greet supporters near Tarabya mansion in Istanbul.
Murad Sezer/Reuters
Simon P. Watmough, European University Institute; Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, Université de Strasbourg; David Tittensor, Deakin University; Ihsan Yilmaz, Deakin University
Experts agree that Turkey is even further polarised after contested unofficial results show President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has won the right to expand his powers.
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Politics + Society
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Soledad Stoessel, National University of La Plata
A brief chronicle of the Ecuadorian election fraud that wasn't.
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Pierre Bréchon, Sciences Po Grenoble
As France heads to the polls ton April 23, citizens seem more confused than ever about just what is "left" and what is "right".
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Business + Economy
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Isabelle Bensidoun, CEPII – Recherche et expertise sur l’économie mondiale; Andrea Goldstein, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Catholic University of Milan; Françoise Lemoine, CEPII – Recherche et expertise sur l’économie mondiale; Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, CEPII – Recherche et expertise sur l’économie mondiale
China is now the world's second-largest international investor. Should the US and Europe be scared?
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Health + Medicine
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Jeremiah Waweru Gathirwa, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Ruth Monyenye Nyang’acha,, Kenya Medical Research Institute
There's a need for new anti-malarial agents due to some malaria drugs becoming ineffective in the fight against the disease.
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Science + Technology
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Julien Benoit, University of the Witwatersrand
Sea cows (Sirenia) descended from four legged mammals that roamed Africa when this continent was isolated. They belong to the Afrotheria, the 'African beasts'.
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