Governments fall in Turkey either because they are massively corrupt or because generals boot them out (or both). In 2002, fed up with the greed and ineptitude of the country's secular parties, voters chose Recep Tayyip Erdogan as prime minister as they propelled his mildly Islamist Justice and Development (ak) Party into government. A decade on, ak, which means "white" or "pure" in Turkish, has proven not to be so exceptional after all and finds itself mired in one of the biggest graft scandals in recent history.
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