Turkey, democracy and the EU
July 27, 2014, Sunday/ 00:21:10/ AMANDA PAUL
Last week Forbes magazine published an article titled “Vladimir Erdogan: How the Turkish Premier is Consolidating Power Russian Style”. Indeed a dark shadow has fallen across Turkey. Democracy in Turkey is on skid row.
Over the past 12 months the rule of law, separation of powers, civil liberties and freedoms have been eroded or outright crushed. As in Russia, media in Turkey has been declared by Freedom House as not free, with Ankara, as Moscow, controlling significant chunks of it, particularly the television media.
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