Hope for Democracy in Turkey Faded With Erdogan’s Ascension
8/19/18
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from The New York Times,
8/18/18:
Republicans say the economy will help them in November. Democrats say it won’t. New data says the full story is more complicated.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once presented himself as a moderate and modernizing leader. But as he began amassing supreme powers, the notion that he was a liberalizing force has been wholly extinguished.
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