One-Man State: Presidential Election Set to Seal Erdogan's Supremacy
By Hasnain Kazim and Maximilian Popp
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan began his political career as a democratic reformer. But those days are long gone. His battles against the country's old elite and the demonstrators of Gezi Park revealed his despotic tendencies. Now, he wants to become president.
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