By Dexter Filkins, News Desk, April 17, 2017 Fifteen years ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the hope of the Islamic world. He was an Islamist, of course, but that was part of his appeal. As the mayor of Istanbul, one of the world’s great cities, Erdoğan had governed as a charismatic and smart … Continue reading “Turkey’s Vote Makes Erdogan Effectively A Dictator”, The New Yorker