Are the Thatcherite phenomenon of authoritarian populism and the ancient art of the political dynasty back in fashion with the Turkish election result?For most British voters,Turkey may be one of those faraway countries of which we know runt, except on package holidays. But Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s unexpectedly decisive victory in Sunday’s re-run parliamentary elections things to us too, and even whether we don’t join up the dots.
Not just as the strategic buffer on Europe’s southern flank,a barrier against regional chaos and refugees to the south, Russian expansionism to the east, and that it so obviously is,but because Erdoğan embodies one of the two conspicuous trends in elective politics worldwide: authoritarian populism.
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Source: theguardian.com