President’s ruthless ambition has derailed Turkey’s promising future

The Gulenist menace has been inflated to preposterous proportions by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his allies.
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—second from left, with his wife Emine, left, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right—has amnestied 38,000 ordinary criminals to make room in the jails for the political prisoners.
LONDON, U.K.—“In Turkey, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the government,” wrote author Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s first Nobel Prize winner. “Freedom of thought no longer exists. We are distancing ourselves at hi...

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