Q: The Turkish population has, for the first time ever, elected its president – the former prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – and a new government has been formed. How has your strategy changed with the new government?
A: With [former] prime minister Mr Erdoğan becoming president, there were questions as to how the ruling party would manage the transition. Within a week or two we were able to elect a new president, a new chairman of the party, a new prime minister and cabinet, and push the government programme through parliament. Now we are back to business as usual. That was by any standard very smooth and very swift.
