Erdogan Will Need to Liberalize Turkey to Survive
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July 22, 2016 2:00 AM EDT
By
Leonid Bershidsky
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey seems to be taking increasingly extreme measures in reaction to the thwarted coup last weekend. Yet Turkey may be forced to democratize following the attempted military takeover and Erdogan's purges. Coups, both successful and failed, have been shown to increase the likelihood of democratization in authoritarian countries.
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