The Paranoid Style in Turkish Politics
Erdogan punishes his opponents on dubious conspiracy charges.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan put his repressive side on display in June, when he denounced peaceful demonstrators in Istanbul's Taksim Square as "provocateurs and terrorists" and turned water cannons and rubber bullets on them. Now Mr. Ergodan's government is venting its paranoid side, sentencing dozens of opponents to lengthy prison terms as part of a conspiracy case unworthy of a democratic state.
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