Erdogan taking Turkey back 1,000 years with ‘reforms’
By Amir Taheri
October 4, 2013 | 10:08pm
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan this week unveiled his long-promised “reform package” to “chart the path of the nation” for the next 10 years — that is, through 2023, 100 years after the founding of Turkey as a republic.
Which is ironic, since Erdogan seems bent on abolishing that republic in all but name.
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