Skeptics see ErdoÄŸan's decree as a last-ditch call to his nationalist base for support as his political star wanes among Turkey's youth. Even before his disastrous Covid-19 response threatened to destroy the Turkish economy (queasy about offending his religious supporters, ErdoÄŸan failed, for example, to impose quarantines on pilgrims returning from Mecca), he was facing […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM on July 15, 2020