Istanbul’s new mayor says his election victory against Turkey‘s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party carries an important lesson for the world’s populist leaders: Act against the will of the people… Read more »
Analysis , Authoritarianism , Civil Society , constitution , Democracy Assistance and Promotion , Democratic Backsliding , Democratic institutions , Dictatorships , Governance , Human rights , Middle East/North Africa , populism , Turkey Christina Bache writes for War on the Rocks , David J. Kramer , Doug Bandow , Ekrem Imamoglu , Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East , Eric Edelman , Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Turkey project , Kamal Sido of the Society for Threatened Peoples , Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , senior fellow in Florida International University’s Václav Havel Center for Human Rights and Diplomacy , soft dictatorship , Soner Cagaptay
