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Saturday, July 16, 2016

You thought Erdogan was bad before? The worst of Turkey's leader is yet to come 

You thought Erdogan was bad before? The worst of Turkey's leader is yet to come

David Blair Chief Foreign Correspondent David Blair

16 July 2016 • 4:25pm

Vengeful, irascible, authoritarian, obdurate. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was all of these things even before a cabal of Turkish generals tried to cast him into oblivion. Now that he has survived their machinations, his worst instincts will be redoubled and reinforced.

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