Turkey’s Hopeless Opposition Still Legitimizes Erdoğan’s Autocracy Through the So-Called “Democracy and National Unity Day”

Ten years after July 15, Turkey’s opposition still appears incapable of confronting the political mythology upon which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan built his present authoritarian order. The anniversary messages issued by prominent opposition figures differed in wording and intensity. Özgür Özel repeated the government’s “FETÖ” designation. Ekrem İmamoğlu avoided that acronym but spoke of a […]