Turkish referendum: Erdogan is starting to look like Putin

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan already has almost absolute power in practice in Turkey. You almost wonder why he bothered with the referendum.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just won a referendum abolishing the office of prime minister and concentrating power in his own hands.Photograph courtesy of the Mexican president's office

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 19, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—“The office of the president of the reich is unified with the office of the chancellor. Consequently all former powers of the president of the reich are demised to the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich Adolf Hitler. He himself nominates his substitute. Do you, German man and Germa...

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