Voter Suppression a la Turkey

September 18, 2015
Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian

BY GAREN YEGPARIAN

President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has embarked on a risky and very bloody gambit to arrange for his Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) to regain its parliamentary majority so he can continue his march to autocracy as a latter-day Sultan.

He is not the first politician in history to go to war for partisan purposes, but given today’s world and the various unsavory tools available to such beleaguered and conscienceless “leaders,”

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