Original Article Post Date:
Thu, 18/05/2017
By Burak Bekdil
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 460, May 7, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Optimists thought Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inflammatory, anti-Western pre-referendum rhetoric was just election talk that would disappear after the ballots were counted, but that was a vain hope.