From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in Transition
A journalist who has lived in Istanbul over a decade watches a fragile democracy become an autocracy, at the scale of one neighbourhood and its shopkeepers.
Hansen has lived in Istanbul for over a decade, and traces the slide from fragile democracy to autocracy through a single neighbourhood and the people in it. Erdogan and Turkish Islamism are here, but the change registers mostly at street level, in what shopkeepers stop saying aloud and which buildings quietly change hands.
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Tyler Cowen
An insightful look into Erdoğan, Turkish Islamism, parts of Istanbul, and most of all how Turkey slid into autocracy. One of the best case studies I know of on how a fragile democracy can go away.
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