"Turkey’s Economy is Booming. Does That Mean The End of Democracy For Its People?
Jun. 12 2011
He has called on Europe’s Turkish population to defy assimilation; barred Turkey’s own Kurds from speaking Kurdish in the courts; and commanded power over his country’s judiciary, industry, and press. His administration has ended a nearly century-old ban on headscarves, cleaned up the streets, instituted limits on the sale and consumption of alcohol, ended the death penalty, and presided over an unprecedented era of economic growth and stability that continues even in the face of crises in Europe and the USA. Suzy Hansen, an American journalist based in Istanbul writing for The New Republic, even goes so far as to call Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon […] the most powerful Turkish leader since Kemal Ataturk.” "
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