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What Turkey’s Political Changes Mean for U.S.-Turkish Relations
The July 9 swearing-in of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his second term as Turkey’s president—and his subsequent decree1 thoroughly restructuring the Turkish government—have inaugurated a new phase in the…
- Center for American Progress
Erdoğan will preside over a new system in which power is even more centralized in the office of the presidency than it was previously.
Of course, this structure represents the institutionalization of what had been a de facto reality: Erdoğan was already the unassailable top decision-maker, and…
This continuity means that there may be little visible change in many areas of government.
But the shift…