The Economist (June 8)
2013/ 06/ 10 by jd in Global News
The riots in Turkey have less to do with religion and more to do with concerns over unchecked power. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has racked up numerous successes in governing Turkey, but his power has grown to uncomfortable proportions. “The real lesson of these events is about authoritarianism: Turkey will not put up with a middle-class democrat behaving like an Ottoman sultan.”
Tags: Authoritarianism, Erdogan, Power, Religion, Riots, Turkey
