MANILA, Philippines ― On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s charismatic president, will face his biggest electoral test yet: A game-changing referendum that will decide whether he will become an all-powerful president until 2029.The failed 2016 coup against the Turkish government provided Erdogan the perfect pretext to fully consolidate power. He is enjoying his highest approval rating yet and he will likely win the upcoming referendum.It’s puzzling that Erdogan is so popular after almost two decades in power against the backdrop of an economic slowdown, growing international isolation and the troubling polarization of Turkish society akin to the height of Cold …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
