Last month, a Turkish court issued a ruling that overturned the results of an internal leadership election in the country’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP). With their decision, the judges ousted the CHP‘s up-and-coming chairman Özgür Özel and replaced him with his predecessor, the notoriously uncharismatic Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. It was a brazen … Continue reading Erdoğan Didn’t Invent Turkish Authoritarianism. He Inherited It.
Turkey’s addiction to authoritarianism goes back farther than the current president.