Watching Turkey's Descent Into Islamist Dictatorship

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Speakers at the Middle East Institute’s eighth annual Turkey Conference offered a fittingly dire diagnosis of the country’s future prospects for democracy and its relationship with the West. Campus Watch Fellow Andrew Harrod’s report is posted at the Algemeiner:

“Deep trouble” in Turkey’s relationships with Europe and the United States was a recurring theme in the December address of Michael Meier— representative to America and Canada for Germany’s Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), or the Foundation for Social Democracy. His introduction to the Middle East Institute (MEI) and FES’ eighth annual Turkey Conference, at Washington, DC’s National Press Club was an appropriately gloomy preface to the discussion of Turkey’s troubled past and present.

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.

Watching Turkey’s Descent Into Islamist Dictatorship