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While the political atmosphere in Turkey gave some hope to the opposition, it instead provided a large-scale PR opportunity for Turkish President Recep Erdogan's ruling AKP, @abdaydgn writes in his analysis of Turkey's election.

“There is a crisis in the sense that you have over 100,000 immigrants arriving at the border and we don’t really have a good system to deal with this large number of individuals,” says Baker Institute expert Mark Jones.

Setting aside differences for the shared goal of wresting power from the AKP appears to have paved the way for opposition parties’ success in Turkey's elections, writes Middle East fellow A.Kadir Yildirim.

“I think when you make statements like that, you’re obliged to also provide the funding for it,” said senior space policy fellow George Abbey of the president's stated aim to return NASA to the moon by 2024. With no plan or cost estimates, “it’s not reality.” Popular Science: https://bit.ly/2UmOmDO

“Does it make sense to start a hip replacement surgery without the prosthesis ready to insert when it’s time to be implanted?” said health policy fellow Vivian Ho of the president's call to strike down Obamacare without having something better to offer. Los Angeles Times: https://lat.ms/2WvW6AB