How Brexit is playing into Erdoğan’s hands in Turkey
Elcin Poyrazlar
Turkey is losing its champion in Europe, just as the president distances himself from the EU – and democracy
Wed 5 Jun 2019 11.30 BST
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ‘capitalised on the anti-Turkey discourse to embark on his single-minded pursuit of greater power’. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters
In the early hours of 4 October, 2005, Jack Straw, the then British foreign secretary, and Abdullah Gül, his Turkish counterpart, walked, tired-eyed and hand-in-hand, into a packed press conference in Luxembourg.
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