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The EU is damaging its credibility over Turkey
« on: October 25, 2017, 08:17:04 am »
Steven Blockmans Authoritarian leaders do not simply come and go. And when they do go, they rarely go quietly.

The test of an autocrat like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan isn't how he came to power, but how he treats critics, journalists, minorities, and whether his rule can go unchecked by constitutional limits.
Ever since April's flawed referendum -- in which a narrow majority of Turkish voters supported constitutional changes that would create an executive presidential system -- any hope for the democratic removal of Erdoğan has gone.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/opinions/the-eu-and-turke-blockmans-opinion/index.html
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