What’s holding Turkey back from full authoritarianism

Corruption and terrorism charges against Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most-threatening political challenger, are a major plot point in Turkey’s slide toward authoritarianism. Jenny White, a professor emerita at the University of Stockholm’s Institute of Turkish Studies, explains what’s left of Turkey’s democracy and how it got to this moment.

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