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Turkish Reforms: From Imperial Repression to Thuggish State


The Turks political journey toward the West began a century and a half ago, but Turkey now remains as distant from universal democratic values as the Ottoman Empire was at its collapse.
Modern Turkey s darkest years came between 1976 and 1980, when a campaign of political violence, wrought by a multitude of far-left and far-right urban guerilla groups, killed more than 5,000 people. That era only came to an end when the military took over the country in a completed coup d état and the violence subsided.
Twenty years later, a militant Islamist, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, pledged radically to reform Turkish democracy and make it an inseparable part of Europe via full membership in the European Union. Two decades after that pledge Turkey s democracy remains as remote from Europe s civil liberties, democratic culture and checks and balances as Abdulhamid s empire was in 1876. ....

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Turkish Journalist Who Reported Erdogan-ISIS Ties Sentenced to 27 Years


Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of the anti-Islamist Turkish newspaper 
Cumhuriyet, received a 27-year prison sentence Wednesday for allegedly aiding a terrorist group by publishing a news story.
Dündar left Turkey in 2016, stepping down from the top post at Turkey’s oldest national newspaper, following a public assassination attempt on the steps of the courthouse. 
Cumhuriyet has endured police action and prosecutions at all levels from editor-in-chief to cafeteria cook for publishing stories unfavorable to Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Dündar and his Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, initially faced legal action in 2016 after publishing a report that Erdogan was using Turkey’s intelligence infrastructure to smuggle weapons into Syria, to aid rebels fighting dictator Bashar al-Assad. Erdogan publicly opposed Assad’s rule and has repeatedly referred to him as a “terrorist,” but the bombshell report revealed Erdogan was also cover ....

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