Erdogan and Turkey’s future
By Mohammed Haruna
Turkey, as Daily Trust observed in its editorial of last Thursday, has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons – well, almost all. And the principal culprit apparently is no other than its current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The man is probably the country’s most successful modern-day politician – bar Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the acclaimed founding father of secular Turkey, and Suleyman Demirel, who died at 90 last June, having served his country as prime minister seven times and capping it all as its seventh president for seven years from 1993.
More:Erdogan and Turkey’s future
