Angry Planet

Erdogan’s Path to Pure Authoritarianism


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Turkey’s president has grabbed a bit more power for himself with the recent arrest of the mayor of Istanbul. The mayor was thought to be one of the few politicians who could challenge Erdogan.


Steven Cook will take us through it.


Talking about authoritarians is one of the things we do here, so strap in for another tale of turmoil on an angry planet.


  • Shilling for kagi.com
  • “Competitive authoritarianism”
  • Negotiating with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
  • How to court the Kurdish vote while killing Kurds
  • A stable of failsons
  • “The Turkish Marc Andreessen”
  • Why Erdogan hates Pennsylvania
  • Disproving McDonald’s Diplomacy, once again
  • Leveling a park to build a mall
  • How Erdogan processed the Arab Spring
  • “Fools, knaves, and rubes”—Oh my!


Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan


Ukraine Has Written a Folk Song About Its Drone


Turkey and Israel are becoming deadly rivals in Syria

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