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The battle for Turkey’s future | The Chronicle Herald

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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