The battle for Turkey’s future
THE ECONOMIST
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reason to thank Vladimir Putin. For weeks the 
Russian president’s attack on Ukraine has hogged headlines. This has let
 Turkey’s prime minister get away with only limited international 
opprobrium for a string of illiberal laws that seem designed mainly to 
protect himself and his allies from a corruption scandal that one 
insider calls the biggest in modern Turkish history. 
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