[OPINION] The architecture of Erdoğan-style authoritarianism

Adem Yavuz Arslan* Turkey’s democratic decline over the past decade is usually recounted through a familiar list: journalists jailed, media outlets shut down, judges removed, opposition politicians prosecuted, civil servants dismissed by emergency decree and executive power increasingly concentrated in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. All of this matters. But it tells only […] The post…