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The Opposition's Optimism After the Election
Nick Paton Walsh: There's always a tendency to blame the opposition as soon as they lose. He says Erdogan has enormous resources at his disposal, legal and fundamentally authoritarian ways of controlling the entire political process leading up to the vote. "In fairness to them, they were doing this with the playing field tilted wildly against them," he says.