Mr. Erdogan’s Expanding Power
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMAY 6, 2016
Just five years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey was the darling of Western leaders and Turkish liberals, evidence that Islam and democracy need not be incompatible. As prime minister at the time, Mr. Erdogan and Ahmet Davutoglu, one of his most loyal lieutenants, sought European Union membership, oversaw an economic recovery and began peace talks with Kurdish militants. The news Thursday that Mr. Davutoglu, who became prime minister when Mr. Erdogan took the president’s job in 2014, was quitting made it clear how drastically things have changed.
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