“Could This Man Save Turkey?” Hell no!

ANKARA, TURKEY – MAY 22: Turkey’s PM Ahmet Davutoglu accompanied by his wife Sare Davutoglu, greets members of his party as he arrives for the second Extraordinary Congress of the ruling AK Party (AKP) in Ankara on May 22, 2016 Turkey. Turkey’s Transport and Communication Minister Binali Yildirim is the sole candidate to head the AK Party and is the new Prime Minister of Turkey. (Photo by Gokhan Tan/Getty Images)
POLITICO – Sinan Ciddi – Jun 24

After a decade of repressive rule, Turks are beginning to believe President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is vulnerable. The Turkish economy is in bad shape, his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) candidates recently lost in elections to lead


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Erdogan Loses Istanbul. Now What?

… of the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN. In the Spiel, voters in Istanbul have just rebuked Turkish president Recep Erdogan
DW.COM

Huseyin Sahnaz remembers well the day his daughter Safiye was born — as well as the day she was imprisoned. ‘She was born on a Friday. A day later, we were forced to send her and her mother to prison,’ he tells DW. Sahnaz’s wife,


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