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Thursday, January 02, 2014

Recently resigned minister says Turkey drifting from rule of law - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Recently resigned minister says Turkey drifting from rule of law

Turkey’s former Culture Minister Ertugrul Gunay, who resigned recently from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) [in protest of the government’s response to a massive corruption probe], said, “That imperious style, which rejected dialogue during the Gezi Park protests, abandoned democracy and drifted toward an authoritarian rule. Now Turkey is at a very grave threshold. We are drifting away from the rule of law toward an arbitrary rule.”

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