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Turks Are Wondering if Their President Is Insane

Ottomaniac?

President Erdogan, who is supposed to be above politics, is up to his eyeballs in a campaign to win constitutional changes that give him unprecedented power.

Thomas Seibert
Thomas Seibert
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Thomas Seibert

Thomas Seibert

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