And the latest World Surf League event. Lets return to the referendum in turkey. This result means president erdogan could be in power until 2029. Earlier in his career, mr erdogan said, democracy is like a bus. When you come to your stop, you get off. Evidently, his stop is some way down the road. And even before this result, he was a giant of turkish politics. In 2001, he founded thejustice and Development Party of the akp, and Development Party, or the akp, as we often call it. He became Prime Minister in 2003 and then president in 2014. That was a year after nationwide protests at the alleged authoritarianism of his style of government. There was International Condemnation over the governments response to the protests. Then lastjuly, there was the attempted coup, and a widespread crackdown has followed. While all of this has been playing out, turkey has taken in hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees. Its also experienced an increase in terrorist activity, primarily conducted by
And the latest World Surf League event. Lets return to the referendum in turkey. This result means president erdogan could be in power until 2029. Earlier in his career, mr erdogan said, democracy is like a bus. When you come to your stop, you get off. Evidently, his stop is some way down the road. And even before this result, he was a giant of turkish politics. In 2001, he founded thejustice and Development Party of the akp, and Development Party, or the akp, as we often call it. He became Prime Minister in 2003 and then president in 2014. That was a year after nationwide protests at the alleged authoritarianism of his style of government. There was International Condemnation over the governments response to the protests. Then lastjuly, there was the attempted coup, and a widespread crackdown has followed. While all of this has been playing out, turkey has taken in hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees. Its also experienced an increase in terrorist activity, primarily conducted by