Erdogan's New Powers Do Little to Address Turkey's Old Problems
by Isobel Finkel
and Selcan Hacaoglu
April 19, 2017, 10:01 AM EDT
Following a narrow victory in an April 16 referendum on expanding his powers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeted supporters with a fiery speech aimed at critics abroad who questioned the validity of the results. “We don’t care about the opinions of any Hans, George, or Helga,” Erdogan told an ebullient crowd at Bestepe, his sumptuous presidential palace in Ankara four times the size of Versailles. “All debates about the referendum are now over.”
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