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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Decrypting Erdogan's 'Daesh' stumbles - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Decrypting Erdogan's 'Daesh' stumbles

The middle aged among us remember the term “Kremlinologists,” used to refer to political scientists who analyzed and otherwise attributed meaning to the machinations in the closed world of the Soviet regime during the Cold War years. It appears that today “Erdoganologists” are needed to understand some of the language of Turkey's increasingly inward-looking “one-man rule.” In particular, a development during a visit to Paris Oct. 31 by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has aroused the curiosity of budding Erdoganologists.

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