Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Türkiye for two decades, but with rising discontent among the public and a formidable opponent waiting in the wings, observers believe he could be about to lose it all.
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One way of reading the AKP’s progress is as a two-step process of privatization. In its first two terms, the AKP government privatized a large portion of Turkey’s state assets; since then, it has moved to make the state itself the private property of one man and his friends. The first phase standard neoliberalism won the AKP applause from the Western establishment, which is now aghast at the second phase, which looks more like Putin than Thatcher.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year leadership is on the line, and with it the direction of Turkey’s economic, democratic and geopolitical future.