The Complicated Illiberal

Turkey’s Erdogan has empire in mind

    Turkish President Recep T. Erdogan appeared on the PBS Newshour on Monday in a one-on-one interview with Judy Woodward. Judy introduced him saying, “He wields outsized influence in both the east and the west.” She noted that Turkey had shown support for both sides in the Ukraine war.

   We who have been following Erdogan’s war against the Kurds in Ro…