The rush to oust Turks’ tainted ‘caliph’
By Amir Taheri
March 16, 2014 | 9:05pm
Back in the 1990s, as he tried to persuade his Muslim Brotherhood colleagues to accept Turkey’s tentative democracy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan often used simple imagery. “Democracy is a streetcar,” he liked to say. “We ride it until we have reached our destination.”
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