Turkey After Trump
Christopher de Bellaigue
Under ordinary conditions the police raid that was launched on October 31 on Turkey’s most respected opposition newspaper, Cumhuriyet, and the arrest of senior staff on implausible suspicion of supporting terrorism, would have stirred up a storm of protest from human rights groups and Western governments. But the suppression of Cumhuriyet is just one maneuver in a campaign of repression that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been conducting since the failed coup of July 15. Turks have reacted to what is but one more assault on freedom of expression with resignation; while the international response has been muted.
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