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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Turkey needs to turn away from Mr. Erdogan’s repression - The Washington Post

Turkey needs to turn away from Mr. Erdogan’s repression

By Editorial Board August 15 at 8:16 PM

THE PRIME minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been elected president in the nation’s first popular vote for the office, receiving 51.7 percent of the votes cast. Already the country’s leader for a dozen years, Mr. Erdogan has declared that he wants to build a “new Turkey” and promised after the vote to respect the desires of the whole country, which is deeply divided. But his actions in the last year or so have called into question Mr. Erdogan’s approach to democracy and his view of the world beyond. Will the “new Turkey” be different from the old?

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