>As our special report in this issue explains, he has steadily co-opted institutions and eroded checks and balances. He has turned much of the media into a tool of state propaganda.
Sounds eerily familiar…
Its a matter of degrees.
Erdogen can’t be a dictator, it’s not like he:
Staged a fake coup against himself, arrests journalists, tortures dissidents, disappears political opponents, has a huge military industrial complex, started a cult of personality, and… Wait.
He’s done these already.
Yeah just about any minute now…
well, chances so high if you bet for it, you’ll lose money.
Could be? leaving this line blanc would have exactly the same informational content.
Because The Economist’s whole shtick is to present the unsustainable, societally-catastrophic present state of affairs as a totally normal, all-part-of-the-plan status quo (see the tepid tones they write about the Tories and GOP in in this day and age, as an example), they’re occasionally forced to come out with non sequitur nonsense such as this. “Known dictatorship may soon be a dictatorship.”
Top quality journalism. €40/month please.
Brink? Could?
Turkey has been a secular dictatorship since the republic was established and still is.
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So where are they now then?
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Water could be wet.
>As our special report in this issue explains, he has steadily co-opted institutions and eroded checks and balances. He has turned much of the media into a tool of state propaganda.
Sounds eerily familiar…
Its a matter of degrees.
Erdogen can’t be a dictator, it’s not like he:
Staged a fake coup against himself, arrests journalists, tortures dissidents, disappears political opponents, has a huge military industrial complex, started a cult of personality, and… Wait.
He’s done these already.
Yeah just about any minute now…
well, chances so high if you bet for it, you’ll lose money.
Could be? leaving this line blanc would have exactly the same informational content.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/turkey/freedom-world/2022
Oh really?
Because The Economist’s whole shtick is to present the unsustainable, societally-catastrophic present state of affairs as a totally normal, all-part-of-the-plan status quo (see the tepid tones they write about the Tories and GOP in in this day and age, as an example), they’re occasionally forced to come out with non sequitur nonsense such as this. “Known dictatorship may soon be a dictatorship.”
Top quality journalism. €40/month please.
Brink? Could?
Turkey has been a secular dictatorship since the republic was established and still is.
Either it is the pro-british
– CHP
– IYI
– Saadet
– HDP
Or pro-American
– AKP
– MHP
Isn’t Turkey already a dictatorship??
News to me.
Isn’t already?
Who said they aren’t, Erdogan?
[Average Turkish voter before election (mostly in their late 60s)](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGxDHMYGT0iKtCeAQxrwbuKhT8ji8YwMc44g&usqp=CAU)