Sunday Commentary: Turkish Dystopia

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey is achieving international success, less through its own merits and much more through the mistakes of global and local players, and in parallel it is abolishing democracy, the rule of law, and Ataturk's Turkey bit by bit.

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Željko Pantelić, Photo: TV Vijesti
Željko Pantelić, Photo: TV Vijesti
Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.

Over the past two and a half decades, the Turkish president has subjugated all institutions, from the military to the judicial system to the universities, leaving him with only the last piece of Ataturk's legacy - the Republican People's Party.

The removal of the legal and legitimate leadership of the Republican People's Party and the installation of the "favorite oppositionist" Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the head of the leading opposition party represents the peak of Erdogan's power: he has begun, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, to choose his opponents in the presidential elections. In the new Sunday Commentary, we also answer the following questions:

  • Is Erdogan afraid of Orban's fate?
  • Why are mayors and local officials being arrested and replaced in Turkey?
  • What is the "Achilles heel" of the Erdogan regime?
  • Does Turkey have the ambition to restore the Ottoman Empire?
  • Where does Turkey stand on the geopolitical board of planetary and regional powers?
  • Has Turkey turned its geography into a political destiny?
  • What influence does Ankara have on the Western Balkans?
  • Turkey's role in the Near and Middle East?
  • Why is the EU silently watching Turkey's transformation into a dystopian autocracy?

Answers on Sunday at 6:15 PM and 10:30 PM on Television Vijesti.

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