Erdogan’s Path to Pure Authoritarianism

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Turkey’s president has grabbed a bit more power for himself with the recent arrest of the mayor of Istanbul. The mayor was thought to be one of the few politicians who could challenge Erdogan.

Steven Cook will take us through it.

Talking about authoritarians is one of the things we do here, so strap in for another tale of turmoil on an angry planet.

Shilling for kagi.com
“Competitive authoritarianism”
Negotiating with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
How to court the Kurdish vote while killing Kurds
A stable of failsons
“The Turkish Marc Andreessen”
Why Erdogan hates Pennsylvania
Disproving McDonald’s Diplomacy, once again
Leveling a park to build a mall
How Erdogan processed the Arab Spring
“Fools, knaves, and rubes”—Oh my!

Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan

Ukraine Has Written a Folk Song About Its Drone

Turkey and Israel are becoming deadly rivals in Syria

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