October 20, 2022 | The National Interest
Turkey’s Opposition Is Paving Erdogan’s Path to Victory
Turkey’s political opposition has a public responsibility to challenge Erdogan and provide voters with an alternate vision, but it has refused to do so.
October 20, 2022 | The National Interest
Turkey’s Opposition Is Paving Erdogan’s Path to Victory
Turkey’s political opposition has a public responsibility to challenge Erdogan and provide voters with an alternate vision, but it has refused to do so.
Turkey is rapidly declining as a functioning state, and few in the country’s political elite seem to care. It has gone from being an imperfect democracy to an autocratic wasteland, and although President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can largely be blamed, he is not the sole facilitator of this tragic decline. Turkey’s opposition, the so-called “Nation Alliance”—a coalition of six political parties—is greasing the rails for Erdogan, ensuring that Turkey’s autocratic turn is likely to become institutionalized.