The Importance of Religious Basis in Politics

I would say that religious bases a religion based regime tends to be far more far have a far deeper roots in terms of legitimacy. And this has very strong legitimacy and it has the ability to withstand a lot of contrary evidence. So for this reason I think to the extent that Erdogan represents a more or less his backing is more or less religious in flavor I would say that he would fall into that particular group unlikesay North Korea or other ideological regimes.

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