Turkey’s Executive President (dictator) is the master of Machiavellian strategy. Locking up or executing political rivals, protesters, liberals and the Deans of universities to silence all opposition has taken away all hope for a secular democracy.
When a recording of Erdogan and his son discussing hiding tens of millions of dollars became public, he described the scandal as the illegality of the wire tap, not the corrupt practices it exposed.
The earthquake in Turkey exposed the corruption in passing tall buildings as safe when it became obvious that they were death traps. Not only that but the government failed to provide prompt rescue services so that the death rate was higher than it needed to be and people were seen trying to dig out their loved ones from the rubble with their bare hands.
Given all that, you might think that Erdogan’s days were numbered. But with absolute power over the military, the police and the judiciary there is no sign of his demise any time soon.
See the excellent BBC TV series on Erdogan. I have borrowed liberally from its contents.
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