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✍️📄 In his paper in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, our @OSUNForum
Fellow @murat_somer_eng discusses democratic backsliding in Turkey.
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+(and simply forget the autocracy option and join the democratic side of the deepening democracy-autocracy cleavage in the world) for the sake of Turkey's interests as well as Europe's, Eurasia's and Middle East's security and well-being.

+This starts a long proces that can culminate in either re-democratization or descent to full autocracy. Democrats all over the world should pressure the Erdoğan government to rely on compromise rather than force in this process +

Turkish citizens are voting for democracy with their feet and willpower that defies unlawful government bans. Based on opinion polls, Erdoğan government is already a minority government. The release of elected officials beginning with İmamoğlu and early elections are the opposition's main demands+

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