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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan is a sociology lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and author of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond’ and a frequent guest on Uprising.

Turkey’s snap elections on Sunday yielded a major victory for incumbent Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, which is its Turkish acronym.

Some weeks ago, Turkey experienced what was its deadliest ever attack when nearly 100 people were killed and many more injured in two suicide bombings at a peace rally in Ankara.

The violence is being linked to the on-going decades-long tensions between Kurdish forces and the Turkish government. Complicating matters is the violence by the Islamic State at Turkey’s borders, and the on-going refugee crisis from the Syrian conflict.