Erdogan Leads Turkey’s Democracy on a Populist Death March After Failed Coup

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"In my previous piece on Turkey, written as the coup attempt was underway, I noted that should the coup fail, Erdoğan would simply accelerate Turkish democracy’s death march he had already put in motion for some time. Sadly, things have been utterly predictable since the end of the coup, which ended up failing quickly, and resoundingly so, except for perhaps the fact that Erdoğan is pressing his post-coup advantage even more forcefully than expected in a purge unprecedented in recent global memory. At stake is the survival both of Turkey’s democracy and of the NATO alliance as we know it. And both Tocqueville and Orwell can shed some light on all of this."