Turkey’s state of permanent crisis serves Erdogan
Source:The Arab Weekly Date:20Jan2019
In their 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt noted that “blatant dictatorship — in the form of fascism, communism or military rule — has disappeared across much of the world since the end of the Cold War, most democratic breakdowns have been caused not by generals and soldiers but by elected governments themselves.”
Turkey is a textbook example of democratic deconstruction legitimised at the ballot box. It is a doleful story and one that unfortunately travels well.