Corruption At The Top In Turkey: How Construction Is Involved
There’s a certain pleasure in witnessing foreign journos being utterly bewildered by the whirligig of nutty events in Turkey. It’s not as if Turks, especially secular Turks, hadn’t warned them over the years that Prime Minister Erdogan and his AK party were up to no good. But Erdogan kept winning back-to-back elections so global media dismissed his critics as elitists, ‘white Turks’, pro-military nostalgists who resented a more inclusive democratic polity. Anyone whispering about a shadowy Islamic network of stealthy activists – the Gulenists – got instantly dismissed as laughably conspiracy-minded, suffering from a peculiarly Turkish weakness.
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