Turkey’s Democratic Dusk
Under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule, Turkey has emerged as a regional power. But, whereas the country was once a beacon of democracy in a region accustomed to autocrats, it now looks like it is heading towards authoritarianism at home and adventurism abroad.
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CAMBRIDGE – When questioned recently about a constitutional law professor who was arrested for lecturing at an institute run by the country’s main pro-Kurdish political party, Turkey’s interior minister, Idris Naim Sahin, couldn’t hide his irritation: “I am having a hard time understanding those saying a professor should not be arrested while thousands of other people are being arrested in Turkey.”