Turkey’s president has grabbed a bit more power for himself with the recent arrest of the mayor of Istanbul. The mayor was thought to be one of the few politicians who could challenge Erdogan.
Steven Cook will take us through it.
Talking about authoritarians is one of the things we do here, so strap in for another tale of turmoil on an angry planet.
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“Competitive authoritarianism”
Negotiating with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
How to court the Kurdish vote while killing Kurds
A stable of failsons
“The Turkish Marc Andreessen”
Why Erdogan hates Pennsylvania
Disproving McDonald’s Diplomacy, once again
Leveling a park to build a mall
How Erdogan processed the Arab Spring
“Fools, knaves, and rubes”—Oh my!
Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan
Ukraine Has Written a Folk Song About Its Drone
Turkey and Israel are becoming deadly rivals in Syria
How Everyone Got Globalization Wrong
There’s a maxim that says “No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” This so-called Golden Arches theory enjoyed a brief moment of prominence in the 1990s, got shaky after 9/11, and has been out-right assaulted by pundits and political theorists in the past ten years. It died it’s final death in October wh…
