Turkey at a crossroads between authoritarianism and liberalisation - analysis
Turkey is experiencing a crumbling of the broad regime coalition, leaving room for a narrower, more sectarian and coercive ruling alliance, while simultaneously being presented with the historic opportunity for radical liberalisation, wrote analysts Sinem Adar and Yektan Türkyılmaz in Open Democracy.
Analysts maintain the June 23 Istanbul municipal mayoral election rerun, which saw the opposition candidate score a landslide victory against the candidate from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), was a revitalising moment for the opposition and a nearly fatal blow to Erdoğan’s grip on power.
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