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After the failed coup didn't Erdogan order the arrest of many who opposed him?

I've never heard of an autocrat that doesn't directly or indirectly manipulate elections.

Oh, Ergodan does what he can to stack the deck in his favor, but Turkey is not North Korea. He doesn't have untrammeled power to do so, and on occasion (most recently in Istanbul) he and his party do lose elections.

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