All aboard Erdoğan’s bus ride

All aboard Erdoğan’s bus ride

EMRE ÇALIŞKAN / SIMON A. WALDMAN

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan once remarked that for him democracy was like a bus ride, once he gets to his stop he will get off. It is no coincidence that Turkish protesters currently facing severe crackdowns in their bid to save Istanbul’s Gezi Park often refer to their prime minister as a dictator, or authoritarian at the very least.

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