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      Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship

      An Uncertain Ally

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      An Uncertain Ally book

      Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship
      ByDavid L. Phillips
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 21 March 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113074
      Pages 218
      eBook ISBN 9781315113074
      Subjects Area Studies
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      Phillips, D.L. (2017). An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113074

      ABSTRACT

      Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important geopolitically, it has become an outlier in Europe and an uncertain ally of the United States.

      An Uncertain Ally is a straightforward indictment of Erdogan. Drawing on inside sources in his Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the police, the book reveals corruption and money laundering schemes that benefitted Erdogan, his cronies, and family members. Erdogan has polarized Turkish society and created conditions that led to the coup attempt of July 2016. He has also deepened divisions by accusing Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic teacher in Pennsylvania, of establishing a parallel state and masterminding the coup attempt. Erdogan has seized on the failed coup to justify a witch hunt, arresting thousands and ordering the wholesale dismissal of alleged coup sympathizers. Rather than foster reconciliation, he pursued vendettas and turned Turkey into a gulag.

      An Uncertain Ally exposes Turkey’s ties to jihadists in Syria and the Islamic State, questioning its suitability as a NATO member. Under Erdogan, Turkey faces a dark future that poses a danger to the region and internationally.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I. Domestic Issues

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Erdogan

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Secularism

      chapter 3|12 pages

      Human Rights

      chapter 4|12 pages

      Corruption

      chapter 5|20 pages

      The Kurdish Question

      part |2 pages

      Part II. Regional Conflicts

      chapter 6|10 pages

      The Iraq War

      chapter 7|28 pages

      Zero Problems with Neighbors

      chapter 8|18 pages

      The Syrian Quagmire

      chapter 9|16 pages

      Terror Ties

      part |2 pages

      Part III. Crackdown

      chapter 10|12 pages

      Consolidation

      chapter 11|12 pages

      Under Siege

      chapter 12|10 pages

      Ending Exceptionalism

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