While the root causes of modern authoritarianism have been hotly debated, studies increasingly point to income inequality as the prime culprit.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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The United States Officially Sells Out the Kurds
Trump has signed off on a Turkish invasion of Kurdish regions of Syria, signaling a final betrayal of our regional allies.
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The Case for Always Defending Democracy
Recent events in Turkey, Ethiopia, and the Czech Republic show that people still have power.
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A Warning from Istanbul
If Trump refuses to accept a 2020 loss, he may use a strategy now being tested in Turkey.
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Trump Abandoning the Kurds Isn’t Realism. It’s Tragedy.
These are costs to pulling troops from Syria that the president won’t care to acknowledge.
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The NBA Player Who Might be Erdogan’s Most Effective Critic
Enes Kanter called Turkey’s president the ‘Hitler of our century.’ Now there’s a warrant out for his arrest.
