World’s leading demagogue, Erdogan

The coveted title of World’s Leading Demagogue has just gone to the Turkish President, Recep Tayyib Erdogan.
Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan, right, pictured Nov. 22, 2017, with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Erdogan may look like an aging, disappointed post office clerk, passed over for promotion too many times, but he can take an ignorant remark from halfway around the planet and inflate it into an existential threat to Turkey’s future, writes Gwynne Dyer.

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