Mon. Dec 16th, 2024

Turkey’s Kurdish areas serve as petri dish for illiberal democracy test<!-- wp:html --><p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been reelected in a runoff that experts say is the latest trend in the rise of illiberal democracies. The Kurdish heartland of Diyarbakir has been there before, but now it’s spread from the periphery to the centre, and probably beyond Turkey’s borders.</p><!-- /wp:html -->

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been reelected in a runoff that experts say is the latest trend in the rise of illiberal democracies. The Kurdish heartland of Diyarbakir has been there before, but now it’s spread from the periphery to the centre, and probably beyond Turkey’s borders.

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