Turkey’s Military Disconnect
By Henry Sullivan Atkins
In an April 2013 interview with The Atlantic, Jordanian King Abdullah II told the world how he really felt about Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the prime minister of Turkey. According to Abdullah, “Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride … ‘Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off.’” Indeed, to many it has seemed that Erdogan is steadily and inevitably consolidating power, turning a secular democracy into a theocratic autocracy with himself at its center.
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