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Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Can Turkey’s Democracy Survive President Erdogan? - The New York Times

Can Turkey’s Democracy Survive President Erdogan?

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDNOV. 1, 2016

What is unnerving in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s march to authoritarianism is how dismally familiar it is: the coup that becomes a pretext for a massive roundup of real and imagined enemies; the claims to be the one man who can withstand the onslaught of foreign foes; the invocation of purported historical slights; the silencing of the news media. The world has seen this before in other countries. The pattern is tried and true; the tough question is how to break it.

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