President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Turkey for a mandate to reshape the country’s political system and give him more power. On Sunday, Turkish voters replied with a no. Preliminary results showed the ruling AK Party, which Erdogan led for more than a decade before becoming president last year, short of the majority needed for a single-party government. The results are a a blow to Erdogan, who turned the vote into a referendum on his rule, and suggest that after more than a decade as the nation’s most influential politician, he may have over-reached. “This is a major defeat both for Erdogan and the AK Party,” Ozer Sencar, head of MetroPOLL Strategic and Social Research, said Sunday by phone from Ankara. “It’s a clear sign that his power is in decline.” Erdogan argued on the campaign trail that a strong presidency was necessary for Turkey to become one of the […]