Stephen Zunes – Turkey’s Creeping Authoritarianism: Is the Resistance Enough?

Turkey’s march towards authoritarianism took another dangerous turn this past week with the forced resignation of moderate Islamist Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, apparently at the insistence of President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan. Though constitutionally the Turkish prime minister wields executive authority and the president is largely a figurehead, ErdoÄŸan—who served as prime minister for eleven years before term limits forced him …