Turkey moves past tribal politics
by Daniel Dombey, June 22 2015, 06:03
IN THE weeks before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bid for greater powers was upset at the ballot box, his followers declared their support for him in ever more effusive terms. "I say to Erdogan: ‘May my mother, father, wife and children be sacrificed for you’," Ethem Sancak, a billionaire pharmaceutical and media company owner, declared last month.
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