Are Turkish President Recip Erdo?an’s days numbered?
Peloni: Erdogan has more lives than a colony of cats. Hence, unfortunately, it is unlikely that he will not survive this most recent democratic outrage, even as the protests persist.
By Andrea Widburg | Am Thinker | March 23, 2025
Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and, today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace. The big question is whether this ends with a brutal response or the end of Erdo?an’s reign. Obviously, I have no answer to that question, but I can provide a little, very superficial background to help make some sense of what’s happening in Turkey today.
Today’s Turkey is the remnant of the once formidable Ottoman Empire, which, at its peak in 1683, before it was beaten back at the Gates of Vienna, controlled vast swaths of central Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of years:
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