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His critics often joke that when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledges democratic reforms, one should run away immediately. His latest charm offensive in November, aimed at repairing Turkey s badly-strained ties with the West and Western institutions, has proven that the joke still holds value. We don t see ourselves elsewhere but in Europe, Erdoğan said on November 21. We envisage building our future together with Europe.
Two days later, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar described NATO as the cornerstone of our defense and security policy and said that Turkey was looking forward to cooperating with the incoming administration under Joe Biden in the United States.
How Erdoğan s Pledge for Reform Collapsed in Five Months
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According to Turkish news site
Gazete Duvar, a total of 128,872 people have been indicted in the past six years for insulting Erdoğan. Of those, 27,824 had to stand trial and 9,556 were convicted.
Apparently, Erdoğan wants a democratic system without opposition.
But who cares about the Constitution in a country where the governing bloc is proposing to close down even the Constitutional Court, in addition to banning opposition parties? All these autocratic measures occurred in the less than half-year since Erdoğan pledged democratic reforms.
A few years ago, then Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had vehemently refuted claims that Turkey was a second-class democracy. He was right. Turkey has since remained a third-class democracy.