Erdogan won in Turkey. What does the West do now?

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A strongman who has undermined democracy and civil rights while making common cause with Moscow in return for billions of dollars in Russian assistance to Turkey’s disintegrating economy, Mr. Erdogan will continue to be a problem that needs managing. Tough bargaining and muscle-flexing — the transactional style of diplomacy Mr. Erdogan himself favors — are the keys for minimizing the trouble he can cause.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/30/erdogan-victory-turkey-jets-election/
 
Turkey’s Election Is a Warning About Trump

“The totalitarian phenomenon,” the French philosopher Jean-François Revel once noted, “is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or — much more mysteriously — to submit to it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/opinion/turkey-election-erdogan-trump.html
 
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