Voters suffering from the presidentās terrible economic policies might have finally had enough
Courts in Turkey generally bow to the wishes of the countryās authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan. This is unsurprising, given his purges of judges and prosecutors during his two decades in power. So last weekās court verdict sentencing Istanbulās popular opposition mayor, Ekrem Ä°mamoÄlu, to more than two years in jail and banning him from public life followed a familiar pattern.
That this decision was politically motivated goes without saying. Little of importance happens in ErdoÄanās Turkey without his direction or consent. In short, a working-class populist who began life as a reformer fighting for social justice has developed into a cantankerous, dictatorial bully.