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Turkey Under Erdoğan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

22 Feb 2022

Since coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdogan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic foreign policy, and its democracy, sustained by the aspiration to join the European Union, has given way to one-man rule.

Authors

Dimitar Bechev

Published in
United States of America