Erdoğan blames last year's coup on Gülen. His rhetoric isn't empty; there have been purges and mass arrests throughout Turkey.
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The circumstances are different, but it's not hard to imagine what's happening there happening here.
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Nor is the Turkey situation equivalent to the Reichstag fire, but the outcome may be quite similar. There are many paths to authoritarianism
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But it sure seems like a lot of them take a trip through populism and fear.
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Eliminate any type of parliament?
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Basically, yes.
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Which basically makes it a dictatorship
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