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Recep Tayyip Erdogan first won power as the mayor of Istanbul back in the 1990s,
and he then founded a party that quickly had mass appeal.
It was the AKP and and it projected Islamism and economic success, a winning combination.
In 2003, he was Prime Minister, 2014 President.
And over all that time, he did something that many thought impossible.
He broke the power of the Turkish army.
And having lived his life in power, he doesn't want to give it up.
It seems the news today is that the mayor of Istanbul,