Recep Erdogan
Total 12 Posts
Turkey takes a dissident’s nephew off Kenya’s streets. Yes, May was glorious — for impunity.
3 min read
Dissidents of autocratic and totalitarian regimes cannot consider themselves safe anywhere any longer.
Turkey: Shaky economy destabilises Erdoğan’s authoritarian presidency.
5 min read
Erdoğan’s aggressive foreign policy is one of the reasons Turkey’s economy is suffering a downturn.
On the world stage, men and women leaders are merely players. They have their exits and entrances.
2 min read
On what the disappointment felt by just a few world leaders after Trump’s defeat actually means.
Donald Trump takes leaf out of autocrat playbook by falsely declaring victory before all votes be counted.
4 min read
By falsely declaring victory in the US Election before all votes be counted, Donald Trump takes leaf out of autocrat playbook. Dr Natasha Lindstaedt explains that, indeed, prematurely declaring election victory is a hallmark of non-democratic regimes.
Democracy doesn’t have to be Western-style, nor the development template.
3 min read
Right now, it’s simply sour grapes and some play-acting.
Turkey-Greece conflict in eastern Mediterranean is less about gas than vaccuum left by Trump.
5 min read
With France on manoeuvres and Germany struggling to play peacemaker, Turkish-Greek relations are close to 1974 lows.
Tensions mount at Greek border with Turkey amid contested history of migration in the Aegean.
5 min read
The Aegean has long been a place of overlapping migration. Now it is facing a new crisis.