Wednesday, May 31, 2023

How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news

How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news There is a chance for a partial reset May 31st 2023 Share It certainly wasn’t fair. Nor was it entirely free. But, like it or not, the victory on May 28th of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s presidential election is a fact. For the next five years Turkey, Europe and the wider world will have to deal with a prickly and authoritarian populist. That is bad news on many fronts: economically, democratically and regionally. And yet pragmatists have a duty to search for chinks of light in the gloom. More:How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news