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Turkey & Trump: Authoritarians Unite After Election 2016 - Emerging Markets Daily - Barrons.com

Turkey & Trump: Authoritarians Unite After Election 2016
By Dimitra DeFotis

The U.S. presidential election and FBI email headlines overshadowed some dire news late last week regarding Turkey’s crackdown on its Kurdish minority and Kurdish insurgents.

“A Trump presidency is likely to be less critical of Erdogan’s growing domestic authoritarianism,” write Mujtaba Rahman and Ayham Kamel, analysts at Eurasia Group in a note today.

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