Turkish leader’s stranglehold on nation up for grabs in referendum

An April referendum will decide if Turkish President Recep Tayib Erdogan is given absolute power.

An upcoming referendum on whether to grant Turkish President Recep Tayib Erdogan 'absolute power' will be close, write Gwynne Dyer.Photograph by Rocio Necoechea

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 13, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—Reasonable people have long believed that the first person in a conversation to mention Adolf Hitler or the Nazis loses the argument. Turkey’s President Recep Tayib Erdogan does not subscribe to this view, and he has no intention of losing the argument. The argument—the referendu...

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