From Erdoğan’s Turkey to Trump’s America
What we can learn from a parallel history
In 2002, voters in Turkey—reeling from an economic crisis that halved the value of the Turkish lira and produced a 7.5 percent drop in GDP—elected a new party by a plurality: 34.3 percent of the vote.
Though hardly a resounding mandate, the margin enabled the party, an Islamist offshoot led by ...
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