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course Morton Abramowitz, Eric Edelman and Blaise Misztal Jan. 23 2014 -- Whatever his achievements over the past decade, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is destroying his country's parlous democracy. That is a profound problem for Turks and Turkey's Western allies. Staying silent, out of fear that

at speaking out would harm some short- term interests, risks Turkey's longer-term stability. Last month police arrested more than 50 people close to Erdogan's government — including prominent business executives and sons of government ministers — on charges of corruption. While graft has long permeated

en putting on a brass-neck display this week in Switzerland -- and Rouhani's speech today at the World Economic Forum was no exception. Rouhani and Zarif are busy trying, with intermittent success, to beguile the West into submission. (They've left the executions of Kurdish activists, the suppression

course Morton Abramowitz, Eric Edelman and Blaise Misztal Jan. 23 2014 -- Whatever his achievements over the past decade, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is destroying his country's parlous democracy. That is a profound problem for Turks and Turkey's Western allies. Staying silent, out of fear that

t speaking out would harm some short-term interests, risks Turkey's longer-term stability. Last month police arrested more than 50 people close to Erdogan's government — including prominent business executives and sons of government ministers — on charges of corruption. While graft has long permeated

en putting on a brass-neck display this week in Switzerland -- and Rouhani's speech today at the World Economic Forum was no exception. Rouhani and Zarif are busy trying, with intermittent success, to beguile the West into submission. (They've left the executions of Kurdish activists, the suppression

e capability to run governments wisely and well. That proved to be half-true in the case of Turkey's AK Party: Until fairly recently Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whatever mistakes he might make, seemed to be governing Turkey in a reasonably effective and reasonably democratic way. But over time, the bloom i

might make, seemed to be governing Turkey in a reasonably effective and reasonably democratic way. But over time, the bloom is off that rose. Mr. Erdogan's government has arrested journalists, supported dubious prosecutions against political enemies, threatened hostile media outlets and cracked down

arif as foreign minister. In addition to being educated in the United States and serving many years as Iran's ambassador at the United Nations, Mr. Zarif has been at the center of several rounds of secret negotiations over the years to try to overcome EFTA_R1_00441479 EFTA01964640 decades of enmit

Washington Institute Iraq's Election Results: Avoiding a Kurdish Split Michael Knights Article 5. Foreign Affairs The Failed Autocrat - Despite Erdogan's Ruthlessness, Turkey's Democracy Is Still on Track Daron Acemoglu Article 6. NYT Turkey's Dickensian Disaster Mustafa Akvol Mick L The Cou

th Soma Holding, some of whose managers were arrested over the weekend. But they are also furious with the government, particularly Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr. Erdogan's missteps after the disaster explain much of the anger toward him. He visited Soma after the day of the incident and gave a press co

ental issue of autarky, of folks in the Revolutionary Guard who make money from a closed economy and will use any opportunity to trash Rouhani and Zarif. This is similar to the situation here in the United States, where there are people who fundamentally want regime change in Iran and do not want a

not realized. The Arab revolutions ended up exposing Turkey's own weaknesses and contradictions, further aggravated by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's repressive policies and overweening political style. This became clear in the demonstrations that spread this spring from Istanbul's Taksim Squar

, and even an American administration that has all but committed itself to expedited talks. Indeed, the minute Rouhani and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif talked to the U.S. president and Kerry in late September, this process wasn't on mullah time anymore. Ticking clocks can be good if they build urge