Marc Edward Hoffman

Election Day in Turkey Is This Sunday and Erdoğan and the AKP Are on Shaky Ground

Erdoğan’s AKP now represents the ossified, authoritarian establishment, and its rule has, if anything, pushed the youth toward a more liberal mentality. Turks of the rising generation — 5 million of whom are set to vote for the first time this Sunday — are by all accounts less conservative and more desirous of personal liberties than their forebears.