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Friday, January 06, 2017

Turkey's collapse has been years in the making | Illawarra Mercury

Turkey's collapse has been years in the making
Paul McGeough

7 Jan 2017, 12:15 a.m.

Washington: An exotic country goes up in flames and the world turns elsewhere for an alternate holiday destination.

But in researching the chaos of our times, historians likely will keep coming back to Turkey, to pick apart an explosive collision of destructive forces, in which the more autocratic Turkish leader resident Recep Tayyip Erdogan figured he could do it all himself, the faster the country became ungovernable.

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