How a Strongman Stays in Power

Source: freebeacon.com · Section: politics · Bias: Right · Published: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:07 GMT

For decades, most Americans of an intellectual bent visiting or staying in Turkey would be regaled by the same set of opinions. Turks who spoke English were educated in the predictable way; their views often represented the anti-American, antimilitary, anticapitalist slice of the generally secular middle classes—views not uncommon in Europe and elsewhere during the Cold War. Then came Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, first as Istanbul mayor in the 1990s, and as prime minister in the 2000s, a distinctly more conservative figure. Yet, a lot of the enlightened folk saw in him a champion of democracy and a liberation from the cycle of military coups. Free marketeers liked him for deregulating commerce. The pious millions moving to cities from the country saw him as one of them, his parents having migrated from the Black Sea area. All in all, the liberal-minded majority approved of him. Sadly, he was one of the first populist authoritarians in embryo. The post How a Strongman Stays in Power appeared first on .

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