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Turkey’s President Fights for Political Survival
The Daily
The Turkish President's First Decade in Power
After his first decade in power, the machine starts to come off. We enter sort of a new chapter in the history of Erdogan where we really see new efforts to squeeze any kind of dissent or opposition to his rule. And these really gets turbocharged after an attempted coup against him in 2016. Altogether, more than 50,000 people have either been sacked or suspended since the coup attempt. Tens of thousands of people are arrested, are purged from their jobs,. and the government bureaucracy, and the judiciary, and other parts of the state. In 2017, he backs a referendum that passes by a slim margin, but passes. It would completely change the political system here from a parliamentary to
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