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Turkey’s suppression of the Kurdish political movement continues to fuel a deadly armed conflict

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par Recep Onursal, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent

The world has 91 democracies and 88 autocracies. Yet 71% of the world’s population (some 5.7 billion people) are living under autocratic rule, a big jump from 48% ten years ago.

This trend towards authoritarianism can clearly be seen in Turkey. Since President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took office in 2003, he has gradually centralised power by systematically suppressing any political opposition. This has involved…

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